On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:09 AM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - excellent development / programming skills (needed for the next point)
When I started as a UNIX admin, I was thrown directly into managing my department's code base for managing users, printers, etc. This was an academic environment with about 5000 users, 1/4 of which will turn over every year. I had a basic understanding of C and data structures (I had taken and passed the classes with reasonably good grades) but systems programming was a bit of a reach. After I had gotten a handle on it, I found "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens (RIP) in the book store. I spent a couple hours paging through it thinking "if only someone would have told me about this book when I started!" I see that a second edition (ISBN 0321525949) has been released. While it is still unlikely to cover the specifics of Solaris 10+, it is quite likely to give you a good understanding of how quite a lot of UNIX works. Understanding things at this level can be a huge help when you are debugging thorny problems. You may also want to look at "Solaris Systems Programming" (http://www.rite-group.com/rich/ssp/). I haven't had a chance to look at this one yet, but I tend to respect what Ben Rockwood has to say and he sings the praises of this book at http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/ssp_review/. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
