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Essential System Administration:

Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration
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O'Reilly Media, Inc., Feb 9, 2009 - 1178 pages

Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily.

The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that administrators need most. Essential System Administration,3rd Edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques.

Essential System Administration is comprehensive. But what has made this book the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts, but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out. It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently and efficiently.

Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.

  

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User Review  - Bart Mallio - Goodreads

A little dated, but still a great reference, if only for the framework. Read full review

Review: Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration

User Review  - Nemo - Goodreads

An excellent, if somewhat dated, book on system administration. One of my professors recommended it back in my first year at university, and what I've learned from it has served me extremely well. I ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction to System Administration
The Unix Way
Essential Administrative Tools and Techniques
Startup and Shutdown
TCPIP Networking
Managing Users and Groups
Security
Managing Network Services
Serial Lines and Devices
Printers and the Spooling Subsystem
Automating Administrative Tasks
Managing System Resources
Configuring and Building Kernels
Accounting
The Profession of System Administration
Administrative Shell Programming

Electronic Mail
Filesystems and Disks
Backup and Restore
Index
Copyright

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TitleEssential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration
AuthorÆleen Frisch
Edition3
PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009
ISBN0596550499, 9780596550493
Length1178 pages
  
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