AIX 5L Administration

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Summary: A thorough overview, but not for beginners
Review: After working with UNIX of various flavours for over ten years, I needed to learn AIX in a hurry. This is a thorough book, with plenty of examples and careful, detailed explanations. There is a good introduction to RS/6000 and pSeries hardware, and then the reader is pushed into the operating system at the deep end. You will need a good grounding in UNIX to get through this book -- it's not a beginner's introduction. My only gripe is that the index is rather sparse -- you need to be very patient if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. But for the right audience, this book is a real treasure.

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Summary: One with Experience and Enthusiasm
Review: I can speak directly for the author's experience at a Fortune 150 company as well as his enthusiasm to hold classes to teach Shell Scripting voluntarily at his place of occupation. Having worked with Randy, I can speak to his passion for AIX Scripting. Just to point out an example, we had an application that was causing severe logging problems and Randy PROACTIVELY wrote a script to monitor the size of the log before and after it was fixed. This was a crucial script which allowed us to take action before the application would fail due to the size of the log. Randy explains things in a clear, concise manner and I am sure that his passion for AIX scripting will be a stepping stone for anyone wanting to learn AIX scripting as well as a handy reference for the AIX experienced professional as well.

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Summary: One with Experience and Enthusiasm
Review: This is an excellent book. It was very well written. It is very hard to find good AIX System's Administration documentation. I found this book very concise and user friendly. I recommend it to the beginner as well as the advanced AIX System's Administrator.

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Summary: An excellent AIX Administration Guide
Review: This is an excellent book. It was very well written. It is very hard to find good AIX System's Administration documentation. I found this book very concise and user friendly. I recommend it to the beginner as well as the advanced AIX System's Administrator.