I can't stress enough how important a resource docs.sun.com is but I'm also the kind of person who likes to sit down with a big hunk of dead tree and wade through it for hours. I'm still learning a lot of it, and I was sort of waiting to see what books other people might recommend but since no one has put any suggestions out there yet, I figured I'd throw a few titles into the ring.
I'm not sure if any of these are in the neighborhood of what you're looking for but here are some books that helped me specifically with Solaris: Essential System Administration Pocket Reference by AEleen Frisch (O'Reilly 2003) - I found this to be especially helpful because it *very* briefly covers major differences in a bunch of areas (like accounts, startup/shutdown, devices, process and resource management, filesystems, kernel configs etc.) across Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. It's not so much a resource, as a cross reference. It's sparse (at 120 very small pages) but it's a great place to start if you know pretty much what you want to accomplish but you're not sure how it's done in Solaris. For example if you look up cron jobs you can see at a glance that the logs for Red Hat are in /var/log/cron wheras in Solaris they'd be in /var/cron/log. Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp by David Rhodes and Domenic Butler (Prentice Hall 2002) I found this to be an excellent all around reference on most of the important basics of Solaris. I like the authors' tone and style and I picked up a lot of good info from this one. Solaris Solutions for System Administrators by Sandra Henry-Stocker and Evan R. Marks (Wiley Publishing 2003) Some of this is basic Sysadmin stuff, but I appreciated it for the significant portions devoted to running on Sun hardware, which a lot of general purpose Solaris books (IMHO) sort of gloss over. Not the most important book in my library, but still one I consider a worthwhile purchase. Solaris 9 The Complete Reference by Paul Watters (Osborne 2002) There's a Solaris 10 edition of this book, but I don't have it so I can't speak to it's completeness as far as updates go. This is another "general reference" bookf or me (I always like to have 2). It's larger than the Solaris OE Boot Camp book, but I find Boot Camp to be a bit more focused. All in all though, I like this book a lot because it's fairly easy to find a relevant section. I hope some of that helps, good luck! Micah DesJardins _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
