> If you need a good book about system administration, Evi > Nemeth's _Unix > System Administration Handbook_ is still the best anywhere. Tom > Limoncelli and Christine Hogan's _The Practice of System and Network > Administration_ is also first rate, and Frisch's O'Reilly book > _Essential System Administration_ is excellent too. All of > them are far > superior to _LPI in a Nutshell_, in my opinion. > > Adam >
I'd also add the original 4.3BSD System Administrators Guide, and the real AT&T System V Administrators Guide from SVR3 (the R4 one was quite different) to that list. Both explain some rather obscure history of various commands that when you read it, you say a lot of "So THAT's what they were trying to do!" and it all clicks. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates
