Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide (HP Technologies)

By Matthew Cheek

Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide is the first book to address Digital UNIX system administration from an experienced administrator's point of view. Every topic covered is specific to Digital UNIX, including installing and configuring the system; creating and managing user accounts; managing networking, printing and the Web; developing and implementing backup strategies; and tuning and troubleshooting.

This book walks the novice Digital UNIX administrator through the initial system installation and is a guide through the main points of administering a Digital UNIX system. It also serves as a valuable reference guide for experienced UNIX system administrators who are new to Digital UNIX. It includes appendices that list URLs of valuable resources on the Web and detail useful public domain utilities and where to get them.

About Digital UNIX: Digital UNIX sales grew by 51% last year, faster than the industry's UNIX growth. (Overall, high-end UNIX server sales gained 5% last year and midrange UNIX servers grew 34%.) Digital was the first to offer 64-bit architecture, which has caused Sun, HP and Silicon Graphics to follow their lead. The combination of Digital UNIX and Alpha technology provides extremely high system performance. Analysts say that UNIX has a good three to five year technology lead over Windows NT due to its scalability, reliability, and clustering ability.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555581994
• ISBN13: 9781555581992
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Compaq/Digital Unix Guide - Very Useful

I'm a UNIX System Admin and I've used this Guide frequently. My primary flavor is HP-UX but I'm also responsible for a spattering of Compaq (Digital) servers as well. I've had no problems locating commands or understanding their usage. This Guide works. Don't be misled by the "DIGITAL" in the title - all the commands are the same ...just the name has changed ( to Compaq ). Best Regards, turtlex.

Great TRU64 UNIX Primer

This book takes you from start to finish on planning and installing TRU64 UNIX. It is easy to follow and logicaly laid out for any with a system administration back ground in OpenVMS or another UNIX operating system. The book points out commonly made mistakes and helps you avoid them.

An excellent resource for beginners in Digital sysadmin

A must for all the Digital system administration guys. Gives most of the stuff required for the system administration work. After going through the book one can understand with clarity all the concepts of tru64unix. Beginners benefit the most.

Great value

If you are already familiar with the basics of the Digital Unix operating system (or, Tru64 Unix), this one is a great value. It teaches not only the basics of the System Adminstrator's work, but on the small but important details. I mostly liked the chapter about Security (which lacks in many other books).

Comprehensive and accessible.

This guide is an excellent resource for system administrators new to Digital UNIX. Matthew Cheek has taken the best bits from the Digital UNIX documentation and coupled them with helpful examples and real-world experiences. Its size and style make it a perfect addition to any Digital UNIX administrator's toolkit.