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From: d_burr@starfleet.gov (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need good system admin reference book
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:44:52 GMT
Organization: Starfleet Command
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In article <30BBEA3F.479E@mcs.com>, Eli Lazich  <elazich@mcs.com> wrote:
>Stuart M Pringle wrote:
>> 
>> As a newbie UNIX administrator, I need a book to help me where MAN leaves 
>off
>> or where I do not know enough to ask MAN the right questions.
>> 
>> Any suggestions welcomed.
>> 
>> Thanks in anticipation
>> Stuart
>O'Reilly & Assoc.  puts out a book called Essential System Administration 
>that's very good for a new admin type.  Another good book is the 4.4 BSD 
>System Manager's Manual and as I look at it it is also by O'Reilly.
>
>Eli

Might I also suggest "The UNIX System Administrator's Handbook", SECOND 
EDITION (don't get the one with the yellow cover, it is first edition!).  
It's a BIG book -- the second edition is over twice as big as the first.  
And it covers a wide variety of topics related to system administration, 
and it covers them well.  It's very well written, easy for even a 
beginer to understand, yet covers all topics (even wizard-ish ones) 
very well.  Lots of examples are included, AND the book has 
a CD-ROM with more examples and useful software on it.  It's expensive 
(~$50 US), but well worth it.  Trust me.

Title:         The UNIX System Administrator's Handbook
Authors:       Nemeth, Evi; Snyder, Garth; Seebass, Scott; and one other
               guy whose name I don't remember offhand.
Publisher:     Prentice-Hall
ISBN:          0-13-151051-7
Price:         ~$50 US
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