Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp: Amazon.co.uk: David Rhodes, Dominic Butler: Books

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This book covers Solaris 8 and 9 as well as earlier versions. Each chapter starts with a list of relevant manual pages and system files that are related to the tasks described in the chapter. All tasks are explained in detail and illustrated with example commands and the relevant output that system administrators will encounter. Chapters are presented in chronological order and cover the steps that system administrators follow to build systems. For example, Rhodes and Butler start by adding users onto a single system, add the system to the network, move on to configuring services such as NFS and NTP—which rely on the newly-configured network—and so forth until they have built a complex of networked machines using NIS, NTP and a multitude of other services.The code examples in the book have all been built and tested on the systems described in that chapter. Rhodes and Butler also provide a number of tools, which can be used to monitor and manage the system, and define a hierarchy for configuring both the servers and clients. This is the companion to the Solaris System Administrators Reference by Janice Winsor (0130277010)!

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Complete solutions for every Solaris OE sysadmin.

Step-by-step solutions for every key Solaris OE system administration task
From basic user administration to complex enterprise networking
Filesystems, kernels, shells, Internet/DNS, email, PPP, NIS, backup/restore, and much more
Extensive examples, sample output, and shell scripts
Includes coverage of Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environments

You already have the man pages: what you need are the answers! With Solaris OE Boot Camp, the answers are right at your fingertips. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience with Sun Microsystems hardware and software, David Rhodes and Dominic Butler walk you through every facet of Solaris OE system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. Rhodes and Butler explain every task in detail-with sample commands, specific output, lists of impacted system files, and in some cases, complete shell scripts. Coverage includes:

User Administration
Permissions & Security
Networking
Filesystems, including NFS, DFS & Autofs
Serial & SCSI Connections
Internet & DNS
Disk Quotas
Shells
Email Configuration & Management
Backup/Restore
System Boot/Halt
PPP Remote Connections
Kernels & Patches
Naming Services & NIS
Package Administration
Time, Date, & NTP
And much more...

Whether you've been running the Solaris Operating Environment for a week or a decade, Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp will help you do more, do it faster, and do it better!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

This is streets ahead of the competition 28 Dec 2003

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Format:Paperback

This is a great book. I get the feeling that there are 2 common factors shared by all the best IT texts I have read. One, the authors are extremely expert in their subject and two, that they invested the time in 'being bothered' to produce a book of quality.

As a brief synopsis, this book is practically based, as hinted by the title. All the core Solaris subjects are covered in a good amount of detail. What I particularly liked about the book was the authors readiness to highlight both common and sutle pitfalls - something very rare in most of the IT books you get today.

Well done indeed. I won't hesitate in buying another book by these authors.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Buy this book if you want to learn Solaris OE 23 Jan 2005

I have purchased and read many unix books. I just wish I had read this book a long time ago and before I got my Solaris SCSA Certification............

There is simply loads of useful bits of information in this book and it includes many new ones I never came across or knew. All topics are explained logically, clearly in a manner that is easy to read.

After reading some little snippet or topic, I think to myself - so thats what that little command is all about etc...

Buy this book - and NO I am not the author..... :O)

A MUST BUY 4 Oct 2002

By "njp01"

I have finally found a Unix book that gives the step by step examples I have always dreamed off, from system backups to scripts. I recommend this for all levels of Unix administrators.