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Automating UNIX and Linux Administration (The Expert's Voice) by Kirk Bauer Average Customer Review:  Paperback (05 September, 2003) list price: $49.99 -- our price: $32.99 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (8)
Isbn: 1590592123 |
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Wow!A Monumental Achievement!
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Essential System Administration, Third Edition by Æleen Frisch Average Customer Review: Paperback (15 August, 2002) list price: $54.95 -- our price: $36.27 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (67)
Isbn: 0596003439 |
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Principles of Network and System Administration by Mark Burgess Average Customer Review:  Paperback (17 July, 2000) list price: $55.00 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (4)
I bought this over a year ago and was not impressed, initially.However, I am re-reading it in light of new responsibilities, and I'm changing my opinion, slightly. First of all, if you are a serious system administrator, you should own, read, and work to the principles outlined in this book. With that said, there were two items that I felt detracted from the presentation. First was, there was much text devoted to particular operating systems (both *nix and Windows).Whether you're dealing with Linux, Unix, or BeOS, it's the principles that matter, not the implementation. The second was that cfEngine, a systems configuration engine, was used to demonstrate the principles.This works on Unix - and again, detracted from the overall presentation of the "Principles" in the title I bought it for. So, bottom line, the book is worth a read.Spend some time working to understand and apply the principles in your environment.If you can implement some of the specifics of the author's techniques, that's all the better. 11/10/02 update: "The Practice of System and Network Administration" is in. Short verdict, it's worth the money.
This sort of work has been needed for a long time, since "The Keys to Successful Unix System Management" went out of print.However, this work may be a bit too academic for many admins. They might find the recent "Practice of System and Network Administration" to be a bit better.If you can afford both, do so.
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This guy is a complete ningkumpoop!
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Unix in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for SVR4 and Solaris 7 (3rd Edition) by Arnold Robbins Average Customer Review: Paperback (15 November, 1999) list price: $29.95 -- our price: $19.77 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Unix in a Nutshell is the standard desktop reference, without question. (Manpages come in a close second.) With a clean layout and superior command tables available at a glance, O'Reilly's third edition of Nutshell is an essential to own. Like a dictionary, Unix in a Nutshell helps you find what you need, even if you're not exactly sure what you're looking for (or how to spell it!). With that in mind, this book is for intermediate to advanced users only--those new to the Unix operating system would be better off with Learning the Unix Operating System or Unix: Visual Quickstart Guide. The last full revision of the book was in 1992, and the new edition covers Solaris 7 as well as newer versions of shells (ksh, in particular), RCS, and GNU emacs. Topping off at over 500 pages, Unix in a Nutshell contains--literally--everything you could want to know about the various commands, shells, and functions. Fifty new commands have been added to the already sizable lists, and even the most seasoned user is likely to find a discover a new timesaving command. --Jennifer Buckendorff ... Read more Reviews (42)
There is no other Solaris book out there that covers the most often-used Solaris commands with such intricate detail and organization as this book does.The only drawback to this book is that the author stopped at Solaris 7.Considering that right now Solaris is up to version 9, I so very much wish that Mr. Robbins continued this book into Solaris 8 and 9. The beautiful part about Solaris, however, is that even Solaris 8 and 9 contain most if not all of the commands that are listed in this book, so it still becomes an absolute necessity for any Solaris administrator.The complete chapter on vi also will be a welcome sight to many as well the separate chapters on the different operating system shells. I must warn that this is NOT a book for those who are lookingto get started in Solaris.This is purely a reference manual.In effect, this book is Solaris on-line help (man pages) in a beautifully organized compendium of the essential Solaris commands. If you are a Solaris administrator, regardless of whether you're a novice or an "expert", you need to have this book at your desk at all times.It's completely indispenable. ... Read more Isbn: 1565924274 |
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Learning the bash Shell, 2nd Edition by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt Average Customer Review:  Paperback (02 January, 1998) list price: $29.95 US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Reviews (22)
Isbn: 1565923472 |
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Most disappointing O'Reilly book I've bought
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Learning Perl, Third Edition by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix Average Customer Review: Paperback (15 July, 2001) list price: $34.95 -- our price: $23.07 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review In this smooth, carefully paced course, a leading Perl trainerteaches you to program in the language that threatens to make C, sed, awk, and the Unix shell obsolete for many tasks.This book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning.It is fullyaccessible to the novice programmer. ... Read more Reviews (248)
Isbn: 0596001320 |
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Programming Perl (3rd Edition) by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant Average Customer Review: Paperback (01 July, 2000) list price: $49.95 -- our price: $32.97 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review Larry Wall wrote Perl and he wrote Programming Perl. Better yet,he writes amusingly and well--all of which comes across in this latest editionof the definitive guide to the language. Like Topsy, Perl just grew, and as a result the need for a third edition cameabout. It's now over 1,000 pages, which it needs to be, as it performs severaldifferent duties. First, it's an introduction to the Perl language for those whoare new to programming; also, it's a guide for those who are coming from otherlanguages; and, finally, it's a Perl language reference. Among Larry Wall's other pursuits is being a linguist, and it's perhaps for thisreason that Perl is a peculiarly flexible language with many routes to achievingthe same ends, as the authors ably demonstrate. It's also extensible in severalways, designed to work with many other languages. Also, as it's largelyinterpreted, programs written in Perl tend to run unmodified on a variety ofplatforms--although platform-specific Perl modules and programming practices arealso discussed. A major strength of Programming Perl is the way subject areas areapproached from several directions. This constant shift of viewpoint eliminatesblind spots in the reader's understanding and provides a pleasing echo of theway Perl itself can take many routes from here to there. Because the Perl community is both knowledgeable and active, the language coversmuch more ground here than in the previous edition. Even if you have bothprevious editions, you'll want this latest version--if only for the new jokes.--Steve Patient, amazon.co.uk ... Read more Reviews (224)
Isbn: 0596000278 |
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Perl for System Administration by David N. Blank-Edelman Average Customer Review: Paperback (15 January, 2000) list price: $34.95 -- our price: $23.07 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The title of David N. Blank-Edelman's new book, Perl for SystemAdministration, is strangely redundant and thankfully misleading. The souland source of Perl's core competence is Unix system administration, and anotherO'Reilly tome on Perl tricks for managing backups would not have been welcome.But the subtitle Managing Multiplatform Environments with Perlcommunicates the essential task: how to administer heterogeneous Unix, WindowsNT/2000, and Mac OS systems from the same Perl-based conceptual platform. Blank-Edelman introduces this diversity of notation to motivate a far-reachingdiscussion of system internals, and shows how Perl is a natural choice forcross-platform administration. The Unix and Windows "slash" path separators--"/"and "\", respectively--are like crossed swords, where the Mac OS uses the less- generally-known colon (":"). In lesser hands, this treatment still would havebeen about LAN backups, but Blank-Edelman's familiarity with network imperativesdrives the synthesis. As the topics move beyond file systems, user accounts, and process control, thetripartite division in the discussion breaks down. Treatments of TCP/IP ande-mail feature discussions of NIS, WINS, DNS, and nslookup. The chapters ondirectory services and SQL database management--while apparently digressive--areinserted tactically to enable elegant approaches to the more mundaneadministrative tasks of sending and receiving e-mail and managing log files tomaximize their utility. Blank-Edelman's keen pragmatism shines in the chapter onsecurity in which noticing intrusion earlier instead of later draws on many ofthe skills that are developed throughout the book. Notably, each chapter endswith a recapitulation of Perl modules that were referenced in the precedingtext. The eclectic tutorial appendices--an old revision-control system (RCS), theextensible markup language (XML), the database language (SQL), and twoundermotivated and esoteric protocols (LDAP and SNMP)--are so brief as tofunction more as a Perl-free zone for shop talk than as valuable précisfor their respective subjects. Delightfully, this is one of Perl's and O'Reilly's best-written books.Blank-Edelman's wit buoys the argument without descending into theall-too-common parlance of sappy testimonials, hollow confessions, or theburdensome ornamentation of inside jokes and puns. --Peter Leopold ... Read more Reviews (12)
The best part of the book is highlighting the art and craft of system administration, possibly better than most attempts at it that I've previously read.Even disregarding the excellent examples and specific code for same, this is good as another resource of the harried sysadmin.Somewhat less so for the Perl junkies, however. The biggest downside to this book is the inclusion of NT-specific constructs and concepts.Most system administrators won't touch NT, and most network administrators maintaining NT server farms probably won't touch Perl.This may be a bias of mine, of course.
The best part of the book is highlighting the art and craft of system administration, possibly better than most attempts at it that I've previously read.Even disregarding the excellent examples and specific code for same, this is good as another resource of the harried sysadmin.Somewhat less so for the Perl junkies, however. The biggest downside to this book is the inclusion of NT-specific constructs and concepts.Most system administrators won't touch NT, and most network administrators maintaining NT server farms probably won't touch Perl..... ... Read more Isbn: 1565926099 |
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Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz Average Customer Review: Paperback (21 February, 2003) list price: $54.95 -- our price: $34.62 (price subject to change: see help) US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France Editorial Review The world's most business-critical transactions run on Unix machines, which means the machines running those transactions attract evildoers. Furthermore, a lot of those machines have Internet connections, which means it's always possible that some nefarious remote user will find a way in. The third edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security contains--to an even greater extent than its favorably reputed ancestors--an enormous amount of accumulated wisdom about how to protect Internet-connected Unix machines from intrusion and other forms of attack. This book is fat with practical advice on specific defensive measures (to defeat known attacks) and generally wise policies (to head off as-yet-undiscovered ones). The authors' approach to Unix security is holistic and clever; they devote as much space to security philosophy as to advice about closing TCP ports and disabling unnecessary services. They also recognize that lots of Unix machines are development platforms, and make many recommendations to consider as you design software. It's rare that you read a page in this carefully compiled book that does not impart some obscure nugget of knowledge, or remind you to implement some important policy. Plus, the authors have a style that reminds their readers that computing is supposed to be about intellectual exercise and fun, an attitude that's absent from too much of the information technology industry lately. Read this book if you use any flavor of Unix in any mission-critical situation. --David Wall Topics covered: Security risks (and ways to limit them) under Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Coverage ranges from responsible system administration (including selection of usernames and logins) to intrusion detection, break-in forensics, and log analysis. ... Read more Reviews (33)
The strength of this book lies in several areas.First, the authors probably have 50+ years experience between them and it shows.You really get the impression that they've "been there, done that".But they don't try and "wow" you with their intelligence and they aren't condescending, in fact they write quite clearly. The "mile wide" crack I made in the title refers to the fact that this book covers everything from physical security and social engineering, to how to setup up integrity checking with tripwire and use PAM.Basically I found this book to be invaluable because while I could breeze through certain sections, there was a ton of material that I needed more knowledge about, but either never got around to it, or didn't even know I was lacking.An example is NFS.I knew I needed more background about NFS because I work in infosec, but every place I've ever worked has banned NFS outright, which makes it a little more difficult to learn....Another 2 technologies pop into my mind: LDAP and PAM.I knew what they were, but now I know how to set up the basics and can branch out on my own. In our infosec world it's simply not possible to know everything.This book gives the reader a solid grounding in a ton of stuff, which enables him to go out and Google around intelligently for more advanced information.In a pinch it can also be used as an anti-theft device since it weighs in at 900+ pages and is quite heavy.
If you have but one securityreference, this should be it!
Significant time is spent explaining how unix-based systems work.The book covers things such as file systems, partition structure, file ownership/permissions, users and groups, inodes, ssh, backups, etc.Each command, utility, procedure or feature is detailed over several pages followed by an explanation of what you should be doing with said topic. There are also a few real-world examples here and there; stories most of us have heard before, like the admin who had . in his path. Unlike many computer books, this one is well written and an easy read, and it's certainly a lot more friendly than some unix geeks who's advice consists of RTFM. I think this book would be great for someone who has a very basic understanding of unix-based systems but has never administrated one before, but for those of us who've already had some experience running unix there's probably not anything new here for you. ... Read more Isbn: 0596003234 |
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