Automating Unix and Linux Administration

By Steven Brown

Wouldnt you like to automate the tedious daily tasks of system administration? "Automating UNIX and Linux Administration "will show you how, by exploring existing tools and offering real-world examples. Although some of the book is Linux-specific, most of the information applies to any UNIX system, including material on automating tasks across multiple variants of UNIX. Author Kirk Bauer briefly overviews tools and technologiesand assumes preliminary knowledge about editing a configuration file or mounting a file system. The techniques, methods, and tools in this book will help you manage a single systembut will prove especially powerful across multiple systems. No matter if the systems are desktops, servers, or Beowulf clustersall of them will benefit from this automation. And managing five to five thousand systems will become a simpler task This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590592123
• ISBN13: 9781590592120
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book for administrators with some initiative

This book is outstanding. Most books on Unix Administration start from the beginning, the beauty of this one is that it doesn't. This is a more advanced book designed for veteran administrators, or administrators looking for a move be junior administrator status to senior admin. Bauer talks about the fundamentals behind automation, including state of mind and approach to automating different tasks. On top of that, he...

Wow! A Monumental Achievement!

If you do *ANY* Unix/Linux system administration (from just maintaining your own desktop machine on up to the big-time), and automating some (or most) aspects of UNIX/Linux system administration sounds at all interesting to you, then stop wasting your time reading this review, and *IMMEDIATELY* go purchase this book! Really! OK. If you are still reading, then either you don't do *any* UNIX/Linux system administration (in...

Recommended

This is a good book for everyone that want to go a little bit deeper in the Linux Adminstration. In Linux distributions we often find differents solutions to address the same problem. The book can save hours deciding between using solution A or B. It include and overview of the most often used solutions with the pro and cons in some cases. For example: NFS, AFS, Coda and others.All the time the author has the security in mind...

Automation - the easy way.

If you are disciple in the church of Wall, or like me you believe that laziness is the father of invention, or if you simply have more than a couple *nix machine to administer, Kirk Bauer's new book Automating Unix and Linux Administration is definitely for you. From the creator of the popular open source projects AutoRpm and LogWatch comes a thorough - and believe it or not entertaining - look at how one can leverage the...