In a message dated: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:47:09 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
> It is a good book, although it is a bit dated, and pretty much completely
>ignores the free Unixes. :( Sure, it kind of pre-dates Linux, the BSDs have
>been around a lot longer. For commercial Unix systems, though, you'd be hard
>pressed to beat it.
Though dated, it does cover all the essential things one really needs for Unix
sysadmin. I find it's a much better and more comprehensive book than Æleen
Frisch's book. Whether or not you cover Linux in a sysadmin book is, IMO,
largely irrelevant. Either you understand the basic Unix concepts or you
don't. If you don't, variant-specific details will be lost on you anyway. If
you do, you can easily adapt to the specifics of that variant. This book has
seen many sysadmin's through many a battle on various different platforms.
It's gotten me through SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX 9 & 10, and Linux. I know it's
gotten Derek through at least 3 of those as well.
Æleen's book spends entirely too much time in Sun/Linux land, and not enough
time covering the general basics.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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