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Title: The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christine Hogan ISBN: 0-201-70271-1 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for any sysadmin, regardless of skill level
Comment: As a UNIX sysadmin veteran, I wish this book had been around when I started out. It would have saved so many headaches as I "learned the hard way."
Though not a nitty gritty technical book, this one is a must have for every sysadmin, regardless of skill level or the technology s/he uses. For the novice admin, it offers a good big picture look at the most important "whys" of system administration. For the intermediate admin, it has great advice on how to balance fire fighting with project work that will lessen the need for the fire fighting. For the senior admin, there are gems of design wisdom and sections on how to deal with being in a managerial or team leader role. Because it's more high level, this book is even a good buy for people who manage sysadmins but are not themselves technical.
The chapters are conveniently split into the "basics" and the "icing," depending on the skill of the reader and the state of the reader's work environment. The authors back up their sound advice with real world case studies and personal experiences. Best of all, not only was it a good read cover to cover, it's organized so that the reader can come back to it as a reference later.
Kudos to Tom and Christine for writing an excellent book, one which I will certainly be recommending to my clients and colleagues!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for Sysadmin career development
Comment: I am very impressed by this book. I've been a Unix sysadmin
for more than 10 years and this is the best book I have read for
explaining and demonstrating basic and advanced principles
of system administration. And it goes beyond administration
of any particular OS or system type. You could apply this
to your work architecting, supporting, implementing or
administering any computer or network service.
I have many technical books. I do not read them all cover
to cover. But I will completely devour this one.
I work on a team of 18 (already excellent!) Unix sysadmins.
I would love to have every team member read this book --
our team would be better for it.
you may especially enjoy the section on sysadmin salary negotiations.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have book for all sysadmins, regardless of OS!!
Comment: This book is long overdue in the System Administration (Sysadmin) world. And I hope that every serious sysadmin gets this book and uses it. While I don't agree with everything the authors says, my issues are minimum compared to all the great stuff.
This book does not deal with how to install an OS and similiar low-level technical stuff. There are other good sysadmin books for that. This one deals with the non-technical side of sysadmining. Like the need to properly document how YOU install OSs, for instance.
The only other works that come close to this one are the long out of pring "Keys to Successfull Unix Systems Administration" and the recent "Principles of Network and System Administration". I rate this work a little better then Burgess' work.
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Title: Principles of Network and System Administration by Mark Burgess ISBN: 0470868074 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 06 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Essential System Administration, Third Edition by AElig;leen Frisch ISBN: 0596003439 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Automating UNIX and Linux Administration : by Kirk Bauer ISBN: 1590592123 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Digital Dimensioning: Finding the eBusiness in Your Business by Samuel C. Certo, Matthew W. Certo ISBN: 0071374388 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 21 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein ISBN: 0130206016 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $68.00 |
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