Essential System Administration 2nd Ed Rev&Upd|.. 1565921275

||boek: Essential System Administration 2nd Edition Revised&Updated|Help for UNIX System Administrators|O'Reilly Nutshell Handbook

||door: Æleen Frisch

||taal: en
||jaar: 1995
||druk: 2nd edition
||pag.: 758p
||opm.: paperback|like new|hand notes

||isbn: 1-56592-127-5
||code: 1:002310

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Essential System Administration takes an in-depth look at the fundamentals of Unix system administration in a real-world, heterogeneous environment. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced administrator, you'll quickly be able to apply its principles and advice to your everyday problems.The book approaches Unix system administration from the perspective of your job -- the routine tasks and troubleshooting that make up your day. Whether you're dealing with frustrated users, convincing an uncomprehending management that you need new hardware, rebuilding the kernel, or simply adding new users, you'll find help in this book. You'll also learn about back up and restore and how to set up printers, secure your system, and perform many other system administration tasks. But the book is not for full-time system administrators alone. Linux users and others who administer their own systems will benefit from its practical, hands-on approach.This second edition has been updated for all major Unix platforms, including SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.4, AIX 4.1, Linux 1.1, Digital Unix, OSF/1, SCO Unix Version 3, HP/UX Versions 9 and 10, and IRIX Version 6. The entire book has been thoroughly reviewed and tested on all of the platforms covered. In addition, networking, electronic mail, security, and kernel configuration topics have been expanded substantially.

Topics covered include:

• Starting up and shutting down your system
• Adding new users
• Managing processes
• System security
• Organizing and planning file systems
• Planning and performing backups
• Setting up pointers
• TCP/IP networking
• Setting up email
• Adding terminals and disk drives
• Setting up and using the accounting system

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Essential System Administration: The title says it all... [2012-10-26]

Bought my first copy of Æleen Frisch's Essential System Administration in January 1999 after going through almost half a dozen 'recommended' titles of books that had more to do with command line reference, than performing the duties of a UNIX SysAdmin. It became an essential reference, though the first time I read it cover to cover.

The reason I'm posting this so many years later is that I've been cleaning out my old SysAdmin bookshelf, deciding what to trash, what to give away and what to keep. This one is a keeper, though it would be far wiser for the beginning UNIX SysAdmin to go for Essential System Administration, Third Edition by the same author. It's a more up-to-date choice if you're going to be administering HP-UX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD or almost any other UNIX flavor.

Some of the info is dated, but the essentials of UNIX administration generally remain the same as they've been for years, and Æleen Frisch makes it all easy to follow. Other personal favorites that I've owned over the years include the following titles:

• UNIX Power Tools, Third Edition ; 5-stars
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition) ; 5-stars
• UNIX System Administrator's Bible ; overly verbose but good, 4-stars
• Learning the vi and Vim Editors ; 5-stars

Books on UNIX, Linux and system administration can be like a takeoff of the title of the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western. You'll find the good, the bad and the ugly, so read the reviews carefully. And remember, reviews, just like mine here, can be subjective opinions where we express our own thoughts. I'll also recommend a particular hard-to-find title that I own and reviewed here some years ago, as it's a true UNIX and literary classic:

• The UNIX Hater's Handbook ; the humorous side of UNIX, 5-stars

Essential System Administration, Third Edition by Æleen Frisch lives up to its title, in the opinion of this former SysAdmin and Project Mangler (from a misprinted business card) who spent years in the field. Some of the other titles are only available as used editions, while others are newly updated, so pick what works best for your own needs.

John Williamson [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Srosxi's Review [2013-03-31]

I thought the product was exactly what I needed at the time that I purchased it and the purchase process was smooth and efficient.

Andrew Helyer [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Four Stars [2014-12-23]

Great product, good price!

Robert More [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Essential is the word [2001-11-04]

If you are performing any level of system administration on any varient of Unix then this is a great book to have on your desk. It covers just about all aspects of system administration necessary for small to medium systems and networks.

Each topic is dealt with first by an approachable description of what is going on, a discussion of the differences between different systems and some examples of commands or configuration files together with a discussion of what each example is doing and how it does it. It really is an easy way to work out what you need to do on your own system.

The structure works equally well as an aide memoir or as a tutorial to a new topic and this is backed up by an effective index which seems to guide me to the right part of the book much more reliably than is the case in many computing texts.

Although the book, even in its second edition, is now several years old, it is still relevant. The basics if the task do not change and, even if the task in hand has changed a little, reading and understanding the section in the book will leave you well placed to sort out minor variations which is not something that you would get from just plugging away at the man pages.

The main thing that is missing as a result of this is coverage of completely new material, don't expect to find anything about IPv6 or running a webserver for example. That is not such a big problem though as if you are dealing with these issues, you will almost certainly need books on those subjects as well as a general admin book.

For me, it is simple, this is a book that lives on my desk and not on my bookshelf. It helps me out with my mixed network of Linux, Solaris, SunOS and FreeBSD.

John Peter O'connor [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Great book. Has saved me a lot of time [2014-09-14]

Great book. Has saved me a lot of time.

Stephen J. Hawkins [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Very useful for beginning/intermediate sysadmins [2000-03-01]

I'm a graduate student in chemistry who purchased this book when I was charged with assisting my department's system administrator. I had previous experience as an occasional Unix user, but certainly was no expert.

This book was a very useful resource to me in my first few months on the job, and still provides me with answers to occasional problems I run into. The conversational tone and organization by subject matter made the book very readable when I wanted to sit down with it, but it also was modular enough so that I could skip to whatever topics I needed to learn about quickly. The author's descriptions of her own experiences as system administrator have an honest and practical feel to them. (For example, early in the book she gives a time breakdown of her typical day with tasks ranging from setting up new user accounts to moving around office furniture to accomodate new computer equipment.)

For me, an added strength of this book is that it provides descriptions of how to accomplish the same task on different variants of Unix. This has been especially important for me since I deal with computers running Digital Unix, AIX, IRIX, and Linux. The book does a good job of taking a seemingly overwhelming amount of material and presenting it in a very manageable format.

Clearly a Unix book can't contain every answer in the world, but I find that this book still is a place I go to first for answers unless I'm looking for a very specific piece of information. I think this book is excellent for the intermediate Unix user who suddenly finds himself or herself in the position of caring for a number of computers. This is the most useful general purpose Unix book that I have purchased, and I recommend it highly.

David Olszewski [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Cheap to get but can get the new edditon online [2014-06-04]

PDF for this is avaliable online and provides better information than this eddition but this is still useful to read off paper.

Rokib [source: https--www.amazon.com]

[2011-07-26]

An excellent, if somewhat dated, book on system administration.

One of my professors recommended it back in my first year at university, and what I've learned from it has served me extremely well.

I decided to write this after seeing a review for it at Amazon.com, which criticized the network configuration portion of the text.

To this I must say two things- first of all, this text is supposed to just cover the essentials, if you wish to basically turn your box into a firewall or router- there are many texts and articles about it on-line.In addition to this most UNIX systems have excellent man pages and other help information, and on-line materials.

Oh, and it is much better to use a dedicated device for those purposes than some home-brew toy.
Well, if your projects is really critical that is.

And second - administration, be it system, application, or network, is a pretty overwhelming field.
Technologies change, new tools are added, and there is a difference between products by different vendors.

All that can't be covered in a single book!

However Frisch has made an excellent introductory text in the area, it will not turn you into an ace unix administrator over night, but it will show you the most important things about the various systems and the job, nay- art, in general.

The worst thing about the 3rd edition is that there isn't a 4th.

Nemo [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2020-06-24]

First real book I ever read cover to cover on Unix System Administration. I had used Unix prior primarily for Internet use (as it was the way back then) but getting into a career of actually maintaining those proved challenging until I found a resource that explained to me the importance of sustaining businesses and operations dependent upon the platform for functioning. It helped me to focus as it taught not just UNIX sysadmin techniques but general skills related to the discipline.

Steven Thomas [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2020-12-18]

Even if today (December 2020) some parts of the book are a little outdated, it covers the broad set of tasks of system administrators and really helps building the toolkit necessary for each administrative tasks on Unix / Linux systems.

Julien [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2023-05-10]

This was the Go-To book (not GOTO) for my career transition into system administration. I poured over it, struggled through it, took it on vacations, and finally learned enough to get a job as a Unix SysAdmin. Thank you, Æleen!

Leam Hall [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

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"Essential Systems Administration" provides an introduction to the tasks faced by everyone responsible for a UNIX system. This guide is for those who use a stand-alone UNIX system, those who routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or those who want an understanding of basic administrative functions. It aims to covers all major versions of UNIX.

[source: https--www.amazon.com.be]

Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily. The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that administrators need most. Essential System Administration,3rd Edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques. Essential System Administration is comprehensive. But what has made this book the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts, but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out. It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently and efficiently. Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.

[source: https--www.thriftbooks.com]

THE Unix/Linux Book to Have [2003-01-24]

This book should be called Indispensable and Complete System Administration. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but not by much. No book will ever be the complete book on Unix or Linux admin, but this one has so much material in it, it will be quite some time before I start looking for material not in the book. Every aspect of System Administration is covered in this book. The material goes into details as necessary, but the author does a good job of not getting bogged down in the details or overwhelming the reader with irrelevant or arcane knowledge that only a handful of people will use. What you will find is broad and thorough coverage of the material in an accessible, easy to read style.One of the things I appreciate most about this book is the organization. Rather than listing out a bunch of technical information, each chapter deals with a specific task that a sysadmin needs to be able to do, and the information to carry out that task is contained within the chapter, rather than making references to other chapters or appendices, as is common practice.This is another book that delivers the excellence I've come to expect from O'Reilly.

Thriftbooks.com User [source: https--www.thriftbooks.com]

Good book for the curious [2001-10-20]

I purchased this book as to satisfy my fascination with unix-based systems - I mean, after a while cd, mv, and mkdir just won't do anymore. It is an excellent book explaining the intricacies of unix-based systems and the differences between them. It covers topics such as the management of processes and devices, the filesystem, essentials in administrative tools, startup and shutdown, managing users, securing your system from others, automating your work, backups, system resources, even configuring kernels and TCP/IP Network Management. It explains everything in great detail in a way that's clear to understand while making the reader feel good about him/herself. Even though I didn't end up a system administrator after reading the book, I enjoyed it.

Thriftbooks.com User [source: https--www.thriftbooks.com]

THE UNIX System Admin. Book [2000-01-30]

From the book--" This book is the foundation volume for O'Reilly & Associates' system administration series...provides you with the fundamental information needed by everyone who takes care of UNIX systems...consciously avoids trying to be all things to all people; the other books in the series treat individual topics in 'complete' detail." This book gives he reader a good understanding of what goes on under the hood of a UNIX system, without getting you bogged down in the details, and also points out the diff. and sim. b/w many variants of the OS(BSD,SCO,AIX,...). You need to know a little about scripts and a few tools to get the most of the book, it's not for complete beginners, but it is very clearly written. I had been using Linux for about 9 months before buying this book, and had worked with SCO and SunOS on the job for about 5 or so years(off and on). Almost every page had an answer to a question I have asked myself over that time. "UNIX Power Tools"(1-56592-260-3)works really well as a companion book to this one. tells the ins and outs of the commands and such.

Thriftbooks.com User [source: https--www.thriftbooks.com]

The first book to buy for your personal library [2000-01-11]

I really liked how the author organized this book by task, and then provided an explanation of each task in Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, etc. A very well organized, easy to follow reference that should be on every UNIX System Administrators bookshelf. The beginning SysAdmin should find it very educational. Intermediate SysAdmins should find this book to be an essential reference. Advanced SysAdmins may want to teach out of this book. All in all, well worth your time.

Thriftbooks.com User [source: https--www.thriftbooks.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Æleen Frisch ---

Æleen Frisch has been working as a system administrator for over 30 years. She currently looks after a pathologically heterogeneous network of UNIX and Windows systems. She is the author of several books, including Essential System Administration (now in its 3rd edition from O'Reilly). Æleen was the program committee chair for USENIX's 2003 Large Installation System Administration conference, and is a frequent presenter at both USENIX and LISA events, as well as presenting classes for universities and corporations worldwide.

[source: https--www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/speaker-or-organizer/æleen-frisch-exponential-consulting-0]

Nationalité: États-Unis
Biographie:

Administrateur système. - Rédactrice, "RS Magazine", et " LINUX Journal" (en 1996).

[source: https--www.babelio.com/auteur/Aeleen-Frisch/41315]

Æleen Frisch has been a system administrator for over 20 years, tending a plethora of VMS, Unix, and Windows systems over the years. Her current system administration responsibilities center on looking after a very heterogeneous network of Unix and Windows NT/2000/XP systems. She is also a writer, lecturer, teacher, marketing consultant and occasional database programmer. She has written eight books, including Essential System Administration (now in its third edition), Essential Windows NT System Administration and the Windows 2000 Desktop Reference (all from O'Reilly Media, Inc.) and Exploring Chemistry with Electronic Structure Methods (Gaussian, Inc.). Currently, she writes the "Guru Guidance" column for Linux Magazine. She also writes poetry and is currently working on her first novel.

[source: https--www.goodreads.com]