q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) (11/11/90)
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post "Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual"
As promised, here is a summary of the mail I got that suggested sources
for my information
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 17:48:55 -0800
From: Barry Merriman <barry%math.ucla.edu@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual
There is a good one called something like ``Unix System Administration Guide''.
Yes, I know they are all called that, but I don't have a more
complete ref. However, it is thick paperback (about 400 pages), describes
Berkeley style unix, and the cover is a cartoon of a bunch of little
animals, each representing a different unix demon (cat, chron, biff, etc).
It'll tell you everything you need to know.
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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 22:17:04 -0800
From: Ivo Welch <iwelch%AGSM.UCLA.EDU@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual
Good idea to buy a NeXT. Do not worry too much about administering it. Except
when you want to connect strange harddisks and/or link into an Ethernet
network and become a node yourself, it's a trivial exercise. As books, I like
Christian The Unix Operating System
Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass Unix System Administration Handbook
(i.e. if you want to poke around things like sendmail and SMTP)
I am sure there are many other good books.
/ivo
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 14:24 EST
From: Lee Sailer <UH2%PSUVM.PSU.EDU@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual
I don't have a NeXT 8-(
I hear that the NeXT manuals are pretty good. Beyond that, any good
Unix Systems Administration book would probably be a great help. The
one by Fiedler and Hunter has saved me a few times. If you can
find a good Unix magazine, look in the tiny ads in the back for
a Unix bookstore, and ask them. Of course the Cornell bookstore probably
has something, too.
lee
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Never test for an error condition that you can't handle.barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (11/12/90)
In article <1990Nov11.112802.940@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes: >Thanks to everyone who responded to my post "Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual" >As promised, here is a summary of the mail I got that suggested sources >for my information > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 17:48:55 -0800 >From: Barry Merriman <barry%math.ucla.edu@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> >Subject: RE: Unix/NeXT Set Up Manual > The reference I was trying to think off was: UNIX System Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass, Prentice Hall Software Series, 1989. 594 pages ($34.00 when I got it). A very comprehensive sys admin book---I never new it was so easy! (Once you have this book...) -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)