The bible of Unix system administration has just been upgraded!
E. Nemeth, G. Snyder, S. Seebass, T. Hein, et al:
"Unix System Administration Haandbook", 3rd edition,
(c) 2001, Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458,
http://www.phptr.com/, xxxv + 853 pages.
Now the book includes a foreword by Linus Torvalds.
The book covers basic system administration on multiple
platforms, including RedHat6.1, Solaris, HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
A look at the chapters reveals wealth of info not seen in
other similar books:
1. Where to start
2. Booting and shutting down
3. Rootly powers
4. Controlling processes
5. The filesystem
6. Adding new users
7. Serial devices
8. Adding adisk
9. Periodic processes
10. Backups
11. Syslog and log files
12. Drivers and the kernel
13. TCP/IP networking
14. Routing
15. Network hardware
16. DNS
17. NFS
18. Sharing system files
19. Email
20. Network management and debugging
21. Security
22. Web hosting and internet servers
23. Printing
24. Maintenance and environment
25. Performance analysis
26. Cooperating with (Microsoft) Windows
27. Policy and politics
28. Daemons
This book is highly recommended. If you read it, you do not have to
ask those silly questions like: where are the log files and what
are they for? Is it safe to delete them. Which ones may be
deleted? etc.
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