Rating: 
Summary: excellent general purpose unix administration
Review: This is a truly valuable handbook. It has all of the
necessary topics and they are all adressed in a clear and
easily referrable manner. The new edition is also has the useful addition of including vendor specific references.
Rating:
Summary: A must for any Unix admin or curious user
Review: This is the best Unix book I have ever read. As soon as I opened the cover, I could not put it down. This book is very in depth. I have read several Unix/Linux books and none come close to this one.If you are an admin or becomming one, or if you want to go beyond being a simple user and know WHY and HOW things work in the *nix environment, then I highly recommend this book. It is expensive, but well worth the price.
Rating:
Summary: Unixadministration beginners this book is for ya!!!
Review: Well, when i started my unix administration and networking studies i,ve got two books "Unix for programmers and users" and "Unix system administration handbook". First time i opened this book i was scared! Wow! 'It's too heavy for me, better i start with "Unix for programmers ..." Wrong! Learning thousends of commands and shell scripting without understanding how the unix systems works is completly useless! "Unix system administration" handbook gives you almost everything you need to build your own unix administartion baseground! It seems to be hard at the beginning but it's worth your pain! It was much easer for me to keep understading scripting and commands when i read this book! And now working on meny different kinds of unix OS and networks i am still comming back to the source. Why almost, beacause i was missing some deeper chapters about nis or nis+ and tcp/ip networking (i mean routing, subneting adn so on...), but anyway i've got my roots grounded and i keep growing! And now i know what i am looking for!
Rating:
Summary: This Will Be Your System Administration BIBLE!
Review: Buying this book new is a bit pricey. I bought a used copy and it was worth every penny. If you can't find it used, then spend the full price to buy it new. I can't imagine administering my FreeBSD server without this book. I had tried a couple other books that weren't nearly has useful as this one.
Rating:
Summary: Complete
Review: I first bought this book in 1995, 2nd edition, and it enabled me to succeed at my new job writing software to generate CGI scripts to administer embedded unix boxes. I just had to spend 2 hrs a night for 3 months to read and learn whats in this book. This is no overnight read, but once you've learned what's inside, you are a GOD of system adminstration. There is no equivalent O'Reilly series book - by comparison, all the O'Reilly books are watered down 3x and subsets of this book. The chapter that introduces the Internet is the best I've ever seen, over my 20 years career writing IP software. The information on how to manage disk drives is excellent. I bought the 3rd edition and gave my 2nd edition to the most promising syst admin at my previous employer. This book was recommended to me by the past president of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. as the best one available. This person is also past president and current executive chairman of SAGE - the systems administrator's guild. If there is a tragic flaw in this book, it's probably that its weak on reference on where to go for even more information. Otherwise, this is _the_ _encyclopedia_ of systems administration.
| 
