UNIX ADMINISTRATION
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* Nemeth, Evi, et.al. _Unix(r) System Administration Handbook, 2nd edition_,
Prentice Hall, 1995, 779pp, ISBN 0-13-151051-7, Price: N/A

   This book is the basic "bible" of Unix SysAdmin. It's a general Unix
overview, but makes special notes with regard to six flavors of Unix: Solaris
2.4, SunOS 4.1.3, HP-UX 9.0, DEC OSF/1 2.0, IRIX 5.2, and BSD/OS 1.1 (the
authors also note that almost all information is accurate for BSD/OS 2.0 also).
   The book covers Booting/Shutdown, Root Powers, Filesystems, System Processes,
Adding New Users, Devices and Drivers, Serial Devices, Adding Disks,  Periodic
Processes (at, batch, cron), Backups, Syslog/Log Files, Kernel Configuration,
TCP/IP & Routing, Network Hardware, DNS, NFS,  NIS, SLIP/PPP, The Internet,
Electronic Mail (including 50 pages on v8 sendmail), Network Management,
Security, Usenet, Printing/Imaging, Disk Space Management, Hardware Maintenance,
System Accounting, Performance Analysis, UUCP, Daemons, and Policy/Politics.

* Rosen, Kenneth, et.al., _UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction_,
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1990, 1228pp, ISBN 0-07-881552-5, Price: $29.95

   This was the book (actually it's predecessor) that I cut my teeth on. Unless
you're working in an exclusively BSD environment this is an excellent resource
to have on hand. Even for SVR3.2 SCO users, there is much in this book that can
be beneficial -- if you just ignore the SVR4 filesystem changes.
   The book is divided into seven parts covering essentially the same
information in the Nemeth book, although with a direct SVR4 slant. In addition,
this book also includes chapters on Text Editing/Processing, Shell Programming,
the X Environment, and Applications Development.

* Frisch, AEleen, _Essential System Administration_, O'Reilly and Associates,
Inc., 1991/1995, 758pp, ISBN 1-56592-127-5, Price: $32.95

   This book covers a slightly wider range of flavors (and newer versions) than
Nemeth; the list includes SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.4, AIX 4, Digital UNIX 3, SCO
UNIX 3, HP-UX 9 and 10, IRIX 6, and Linux 1.3.
   The book includes sixteen chapters with topics essentially the same as the
previous two books, but with a slant more towards the needs of the novice
administrator (as are almost all O'Reilly publications). One particular note is
the individual sections on Configurating and Building Kernels for each of the
eight flavors covered.

* Arthur, Lowell Jan & Ted Burns, _Unix Shell Programming, 3rd
edition_, Wiley &
Sons, 1994, 460pp, ISBN 0-471-59941-7, Price: $29.95

   If you're looking for the definitive guide to Shell Programming, this is the
book. Fourteen chapters divided into three parts titled "Shell for the
Novice",
"Shell Programming for Results", and "Shell Programming for
Mastery" cover every
aspect of shell programming from simple tasks for the novice user up to complex
scripting environments for the master administrator.


TCP/IP ADMINSTRATION
====================

* Comer, Douglas E., _Internetworking with TCP/IP: Volume I: Principles,
Protocols, and Architecture, Prentice Hall, 1995, 613pp, ISBN 0-13-216987-8,
Price: N/A

   This is the "bible" of TCP/IP. If you plan to do anything at
all with TCP/IP
other than be a casual users of Internet-based services, you need to read this
book cover to cover. (There are two additional Volumes for the person with
designs as a TCP/IP programmer.)
   The book covers the history, design, and concepts of the protocol suite,
internet addressing, ARP/RARP, datagrams, routing protocols, ICMP, subnetting
and supernetting, protocol layering, UDP, TCP,  GGP, EGP, RIP, OSPF, HELLO,
IGMP,  ATM, Client-Server, Sockets, BOOTP, DHCP,  DNS, Telnet/RLogin,
FTP/TFTP/NFS, RFC822/SMTP/MIME, SNMP/SNMP2, Internet Security & Firewall Design,
IPng/IPv6, and a 45 page guide to RFCs.

* Albitz, Paul & Cricket Liu, _DNS and BIND, 2nd edition_, O'Reilly &
Associates, 1992/1997, 419pp, ISBN 1-56592-236-0, Price: 32.95

   If you're planning to build, design, administer, implement, or use Domain
Name Services, you need to read at least the first two chapters of this book.
The book takes the reader step by step through the design and implementation of
a DNS server. 

* Hunt, Craig, _TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992,
473pp, ISBN 0-937175-82-X, Price: $32.95

   This is the hands on, get the first host up and running, book. For most Unix
administrators who've read one of the above Unix books, there probably isn't
much new information in this book. However, for a novice Unix user, or a first
time Linux administator, or possibly even a non-Unix TCP/IP user, this is a good
basic, general overview of what's involved in making a host communicate on the
'net.


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