[TUHS] Unix Systems Administration Texts

[Pete Wright via TUHS]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:34:33PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 8:38 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious about the experience of those of y'all who actually used them. Were there any early standouts and why did they stand out?
> 
> This is not going to be popular, but...
> 
> > Nemeth, E., Synder, G., & Seebass, S. (1989). UNIX System Administration Handbook (5th edition is another fatty)
> 
> This book gave me some terrible advice when I was very young and impressionable.
> 
>
> In there somewhere it says something about not doing something unless
> you're prepared to do it right lest one spend more time working around
> a work-around than one would have spent just doing it well in the
> first place.
> 

i'll agree here with you on that, but i will say that as a front line sysadmin
at the time it was one of the few resources i had that covered how to do basic
tasks correctly across many unix systems.  it helped me alot as a sysadmin for
hire early in my career - esp when i had to fix something at a site with a poorly
maintained unix i may not have had much experience with at the time - "sure i can
fix your print spooler running hpux".

-pete


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Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org