Solaris 8: Complete Reference

by Sriranga Veeraraghavan and Paul A. Watters

Solaris is a UNIX-based operating environment which can now be run on many multi-platform workstations. This authoritative reference offers coverage of version 7, and includes sections on creating and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072121432
• ISBN13: 9780072121438
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

As complete as I need...

I like this book. I use it daily with Sun's own AnswerBook program and man pages to get all of the Solaris information I need. This book covers extras - like Samba - that Sun doesn't cover because they are third party tools. It does the job for me!

Good book, The only game in town

The IT publishing industry strikes again! Yet again, a major revision of software is released to the general public, and the IT publishing industry takes six+ months to release the first book on the subject. Lotus Notes 5, and now Solaris8 fit this trend...always a day late and a dollar short. You could blame this on the market shares of LN5 or Solaris, but the same thing is ongoing with Microsoft's Active Directory Service.This book is as good as it gets (for now). Combined with the MAN pages, 90% of admins/engineers should be on the way to successfully managing Solaris8 systems. Unless you need some exotic information (installing Lotus Notes 5 on Solaris8), this book will give you what you need. Hopefully the people publishing the Solaris8 Exam Cram (Coriolis), Sun Certified Solaris8 SSA (McGraw-Hill), and Solaris 8 Network Admin Cert (New Riders) will get with the program and release their books within the next two months, instead of waiting another year....

Excellent overall

I think this book is great. It has many good chapters covering the main areas of running a Solaris system. I like the fact that it covers alternatives to standard Solaris software (e.g., one whole chapter on Samba). There is also good coverage of NIS+ and routing. I setup my work Solaris network using this book alone!

I wish I could memorize 678 pages...

This wfaulk guy must be a genius - I wish I could memorize 700 pages of Solaris documentation. Maybe this guy doesn't need any manuals at all (must be a real "wizard"). I can't remember every command, and man pages do NOT cover everything that you need (come on wfaulk, it's not even April Fool's Day!). As for LDAP and DHCP, these are not even Solaris-specific services, and they're not new. My suggestion: RTFM if you can't find it in a book. This book is not perfect - but it's not all that bad either. FIve stars for breadth.