leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) (10/24/90)
So there you are, the best darn administrator your boss has ever seen. You answer questions, you fix problems, and your box hasn't crashed since the last ice age. What books are sitting on, above, or near your desk? What makes up the "definative" Sys. Admin. library? Please MAIL your answers to leyser@nitrex.UUCP or ...!uunet!nitrex!leyser, and I'll post a summary in a week or so. So! Whadda y'all do for fun around here? (Go ahead. Your broken English is better than mine.) We sing. We dance. We are simple people, Sahib. -- Jeff Leyser Hey, would *you* be a spokesman for leyser@nitrex.UUCP. a Big Oil Company(tm)?
mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) (10/24/90)
In article <490@nitrex.UUCP> leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) writes: > So there you are, the best darn administrator your boss has ever seen. > What books are sitting on, above, or near your desk? What makes up the > "definative" Sys. Admin. library? I get by just fine with a copy of the IBM System/360 Principles of Operation, and a copy of the `See Figure 1' memo to get me through those tough user requests. -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
usenet@dlss2.UUCP (Usenet Administrator) (10/26/90)
In article <MJD.90Oct23153459@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) writes: >In article <490@nitrex.UUCP> leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) writes: >> So there you are, the best darn administrator your boss has ever seen. >> What books are sitting on, above, or near your desk? What makes up the >> "definative" Sys. Admin. library? > You're asking for trade secrets???? Well, I like almost any text book looking/expensive looking book that he can't understand. A "Internals of the Unix Operating System" or "Data Structures in C". Especially, if I can get the company to pay for them!
scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) (10/28/90)
In article <490@nitrex.UUCP> leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) writes: > So there you are, the best darn administrator your boss has ever seen. > What books are sitting on, above, or near your desk? What makes up the > "definative" Sys. Admin. library? Time to post this again . . . This is an irregular repost of my list of generally available documentation on administering UNIX systems. If someone is already doing this as a general service, you have my apologies for treading on your toes. If not, I'll happily take up the task of keeper of the list and will re-post it regularly to c.u.admin and c.u.large. Editiorial opinions and reviews are my own unless otherwise noted. Last update: Sat Oct 27 10:48:11 EDT 1990 Papers: The USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conferences are held annually. Their proceedings are available from the USENIX Association, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA. Available proceedings are: LISA IV (1990, Colorado Springs, CO) $15.00 Usenix members $18.00 Nonmembers LISA III (1989, Austin, TX) $13.00 (same price both) LISA II (1988, Monterey, CA) $ 8.00 (same price both) LISA I (1987, Philadelphia, PA) $ 4.00 (same price both) The papers are of varying quality, but there are definate jewels in each proceedings. An excellent sourcebook for freely available tools, too. Books: Books are listed with title, author, date of publication, ISBN number, and length. I don't give prices, as they change over time. Any bookstore can order this books by ISBN number. Reviews are my own capsules based on actually reading the book and/or other reviewers. Any publishers who want to send me books for review, please do. I also gladly accept reviews from independant sources. Try to keep it to 30 lines or less. "UNIX For Super-Users" by Eric Foxley. Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-14228-7. 213 pp. Still in print as of Oct 1, 1990. Some good basics, now somewhat dated. The first book written on the topic. "UNIX Administration Guide For System V", by Rebecca Thomas and Rik Farrow. Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBN 0-13-942889-5. 636 pp. *The* book to have if you've got System V. Particularly good for standalone systems. May be tedious for the experienced UNIX user or admin. Very little on networking, see Nemeth/Snyder/Seebass. "UNIX System Administration Handbook", by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Scott Seebass. Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBM 0-13-933441. 591 pp. *The* book to have if you've got BSD or derivatives (Sun, Mt. Xinu, Sequent, etc). Requires more expertise to read, but pretty well done. Covers much broader scope than Thomas/Farrow, but that's BSD vs SysV. Other Useful Docs: These are available in the system administration archives at the University of Michigan. They are available for anonymous ftp from terminator.cc.umich.edu in ~ftp/unix/sysadmin/how-to. The following descriptions are excerpted from the ReadMe file from that directory: tcp-ip-admin.doc.Z & tcp-ip-admin.ps.Z: "Introduction to Administration of an Internet-based Local Network" by Charles Hedrick of Rutgers University. To quote from the cover sheet, "This is an introduction for people who intend to set up or administer a network based on the Internet networking protocols (TCP/IP)." A nice overview. Available in two forms, doc.Z is suitable for dumb printers while ps.Z is PostScript. Written in 1988. tcp-ip-intro.doc.Z & tcp-ip-intro.ps.Z: "Introduction to the Internet Protocols", also by Charles Hedrick of Rutgers. From the cover sheet, "This is an introduction to the Internet networking protocols (TCP/IP). It includes a summary of the facilities available and brief descriptions of the major protocols in the family." 28 pages. Available in two forms, doc.Z is suitable for dumb printers while ps.Z is PostScript. Written in 1987. setup-ftp.Z: How to set up your site to allow anonymous FTP safely. Taken from the Sun-Nets mailing list, it contains a good list of actions that must be taken and recommends (as do I) that you read the manual. Compiled by Claude P. Cantin (CLAUDE.P.CANTIN@NRC.CA) from advice given on the sun-nets mailing list. Written Feb 12, 1990. kolstad.sendmail.Z How to do a sendmail config file. The same article published in Rob Kolstad's 'Daemons and Dragons' column in UNIX REVIEW, very kindly released with permission from Miller-Freeman, written 1990. A good set of advice on doing your sendmail.cf file. sendmail-tutorial.txt.Z Originally posted to net.wizards in 1985. Comments on this from Eliot Lear <lear@NET.BIO.NET>: The following was written by Dr. Charles Hedrick of Rutgers University sometime in 1985. Please read it with the understanding that rule numbers are nothing more than function names. For further reference, I suggest the Sun Tutorial on Sendmail in their manuals. -eliot The archive is always interested in new documents and contributions. Please send inquiries to me, Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us or scs@iti.org.
rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin) (10/31/90)
In article <490@nitrex.UUCP> leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) writes: > So there you are, the best darn administrator your boss has ever seen. > What books are sitting on, above, or near your desk? What makes up the > "definative" Sys. Admin. library? A hex dump of the kernel, and a fast mail alias for sun-managers. Well you asked! Rick S., Systems Slave Oh yeah, and the Perl Reference Guide