Sams Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 21 Days

by William Ray, John Ray, Joan Ray

In just 21 days, users can go to beginner or intermediate to the capability level of performing more advanced system administrator functions. The book covers the workshop configuration for all major... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672316609
• ISBN13: 9780672316609
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 811 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Learn UNIX in more than 21 days.

Uhh, "Sams teach yourself UNIX system administration in 21 days" is a nice book with some content about older or more advanced systems such as Sun OS, IRIX, AIX. I find this book a bit complicated, since i personally do not work with Operating Systems like these. This book is 100% for advanced UNIX system administrators with expirience. I give it 4 stars, because i found it very interesting and knoweledgable about older Operating Systems, i think i will definately need this knoweledge some day. Oh and the part where author explains how you should behave in front of your boss is very nice also. In other words i would recommend this book to anybody who's absolutely insaine about UNIX like systems, definately should read.P.S.(You definately won't understand a thing if you finish whole book in 21 days)

Jump Start your way into UNIX

I borrowed several books including the first edition of this book to get to learn the basics of UNIX. I rate this one the best of the lot for an intro book. It got me up to speed and productive in a UNIX development envirnoment quickly. It covers all the basics commands plus the C-shell. There was no information on ksh. It gives an overview of vi which I hate, but did not mention textedit which is my choice for a GUI script editor. If you are an advanced user you should skip this book. For a beginner it is great.

All you want to know in one book

I never thought a book on Systems Administration could be written like this one, it has lots of tips, rules, recommendations and a great appendix (like a fourth week) full of useful resources like UNIX commands, samples, links and even legal stuff. The book not only covers UNIX System Administration technically but ethically too, which is very important for this profession. And technically speaking, I found it covers enough technical matter for a Teach Yourself and leaves the more advanced stuff to the specific OS documentation. A great buy, worth every penny!