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In the five years since the last version of the Unix System Administration Handbook Linux has changed the Unix world. The previous version discussed six commercial unices. This one has two commercial unicies--Solaris and HP-UX--along with two free ones--Linux and FreeBSD. It looks like a trend.

This information dense book is a surprising mixture of arcane fact and weird humour--with emphasis on the former. The dense facts are leavened by extensive references to the authors' personal experiences with Unix. This hands on knowledge leavens a fairly dry text with interesting anecdote and occasionally breaks into proselytising. For example, when discussing the automount utility in RedHat Linux the authors can barely bring themselves to mention it before telling us how much better amd is--for four pages.

It's interesting that though X-Windows gets a few mentions the desktop environments--such as Gnome and KDE--that run on it get none at all. Clearly real men still don't use graphical interfaces.

This is a working book. It's aimed at those who have to make the system work and keep it working. There's a great deal of emphasis on troubleshooting, and the utilities capable of providing the system information you need to do it. No configuration file goes unmentioned. The authors also emphasise the commercial realities a sysadmin must acknowledge.

Over the last five years there has been an explosion of books on Unix, and especially Linux. Many of these are referenced in the text. But if you need a practical guide to system administration on Unix systems the Unix System Administration Handbook is hard to beat. --Steve Patient

Book Description
UNIX System Administration Handbook, Third Edition is fully-updated and a highly anticipated. Better than ever, it's an indispensable tutorial for new UNIX/Linux sysadmins -- and an awesome reference for seasoned professionals! Evi Nemeth and her friends are back -- and they've updated this classic best-seller with more of what makes it great- not just theory, but hundreds of war stories and great insights from those in the trenches! UNIX System Administration Handbook, Third Edition covers up-to-date versions of every leading "flavour" of UNIX, including Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX. It contains extensive new coverage of the features sysadmins care about most, including UNIX/NT integration via Samba; Web server maintenance; TCP/IP networking and integration with Cisco routers; kernel configuration on the leading UNIX platforms; and much more. Also covers difficult-to-tackle topics in-depth, including DNS and sendmail. For every Unix system administrator.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   11 of 11 people found the following review helpful: A serious, laugh-out-loud geek book!, 14 Nov 2002 By  "totkat" - See all my reviews    There are people in the industry who won't take a UNIX admin seriously if they've not even heard of this book, commonly known as The Purple Book. It is a fantastic book on how UNIX admin should be done, written by people with very strong views on what is The Right Way to do things. They've written it in such a way that it is a very readable book. Something you can take on the tube in the morning and actually get funny looks because you'll find yourself sniggering out loud. Covering most flavours of UNIX, with sections detailing the differences between them for each subject, it goes through most of the issues a UNIX admin needs to think about and understand. If you admin, or support UNIX systems in any way, it is an invaluable reference to have and should probably be read, cover to cover, at least once.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: I don't know any sysadmins who don't have this book., 7 Nov 2000 By  Dewi Morgan (London, UK) - See all my reviews    This review is from: UNIX System Administration Handbook (Computing) (Paperback) It's the system administration bible, basically. Still current after all these years. But note that third ed is out, and you might want to buy that instead. Personally, I don't see that it's worth the extra [money], but it does depend which unix versions you are supporting. Either way, you MUST have this book if you're a sysadmin. It's one of the very few books that I'd call an "essential" computing reference.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   6 of 8 people found the following review helpful: counterpoint to the other reviews, 9 April 2001 By A Customer This book has a lot to live up to. Previous editions are almost standard items on sys-admins' shelves. How does this measure up? It remains a trove on information. Its contents have been updated (Usenet news is far less important, so coverage has contracted, for example.) Its coverage of security is more thorough, and web serving (very important these days) gets a lot more coverage. And it has lost the CDROM. How big a loss? In poorer countries, probably considerable. But with the number of security problems found, I wouldn't be happy with old software. Go download the stuff. And get the secure versions. Would you want an old version of SUDO? BTW, looking back over the 2ed at the weekend, everywhere I looked, they mentioned ftp.uu.net. The world has changed since then.