Unix Unleashed [Hardcover]

Robin Burk (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unleashed | Publication Date: December 30, 1998

Unix Unleashed, Third Edition is written with the power user and system administrator in mind. This book will help the reader understand the nuances of the major Unix variants including SVR4, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, BSD, IRIX, SunOS, and Linux. It will help the reader decide which Unix shell works best for their particular situation. Other topics such as Kernel Configuration, Networking, User Administration, and File Management are covered extensively for the administrator who wants a variety of options to choose from for best performance. The book also provides in-depth coverage of configuring and optimizing mail, DNS, HTTP and other services many companies deploy across their intranet and on the Internet.

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Unix Unleashed, Third Edition is written with the power user and system administrator in mind. This book will help the reader understand the nuances of the major Unix variants including SVR4, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, BSD, IRIX, SunOS, and Linux. It will help the reader decide which Unix shell works best for their particular situation. Other topics such as Kernel Configuration, Networking, User Administration, and File Management are covered extensively for the administrator who wants a variety of options to choose from for best performance. The book also provides in-depth coverage of configuring and optimizing mail, DNS, HTTP and other services many companies deploy across their intranet and on the Internet.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1704 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Sams Publishing; 3rd edition (December 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672314118
• ISBN-13: 978-0672314117
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,616,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the BEST and DETAILED books on UNIX!, December 17, 1999

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Rawitat Pulam - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unix Unleashed (Hardcover)

This book is, for me, one of the best books I have read on UNIX. This book gives you a very nice & easy start with this old, but powerfull operating system. However, once you finished this book, you will master UNIX in most (if not all) aspects. Because this book covers UNIX in all aspects, including system admisnistrating, all in such a great detail.

Buy this one, if you have to live with UNIX or want to understand UNIX. You have no better choice than this one!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well written and complete text, September 6, 2000

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Mac (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unix Unleashed (Hardcover)

Simply put, this book is both an excellent read and a very good reference text. This is a quality textbook.

The author has done a fine job of covering an exceptional amount of material in a complete and detailed fashion. The flow of the book is good and the page layout is very well done. (I have some books that are borderline unreadable in this regard, so now I pay attention to that aspect much more closely...)

Once you have gone through this book once, you will appreciate the detailed index it has for using this book as a reference. ( The index is just shy of 100 pages...)

If you are looking for one text, which covers a lot of ground and covers it well, this is really worth looking at. I am in the process of choosing a text for some internal training, and this is hands-down the one. Good job.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on UNIX so far..., April 4, 1999

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Zeleng ([e-mail]) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unix Unleashed (Hardcover)

If you don't want to get lost in the complex but powerful UNIX operating system, buy this book immediately. Covering topics such as how many partitions you should have to file and directory structure to Perl programming, "Unix Unleashed" explains in a technical yet clear manner the intricacies of this OS. You're a Linux user and you are wondering wether you should buy "Unix Unleashed" or not? Stop wondering and get out your cash. The mythical "UNIX guru" status will be within your reach after reading this masterpiece.