Solaris 9 Administration: A Beginner's Guide

by Paul A. Watters

This text provides hands-on implementation for network administrators new to Solaris and for those migrating from Windows or UNIX to Solaris 9. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072223170
• ISBN13: 9780072223170
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding! More like a text book than a trade book!

I am a college student studying operating systems. This book is the best UNIX book I have come across (and I have borrowed just about all of them from our school library). The chapters are highly structured with succinct, compact and highly informative discussions of *how* and *why* you do certain things as a sysadmin. It's outstanding, really.

Best place to start

I have purchased multiple Solaris books to prepare for my job, and I would say that this is the best place to start. It is definitely for a beginner; but coming from a background where my only role was as a non-administrative user of UNIX systems, this is an excellent book to learn the inner-workings of UNIX and specifically, Solaris 9. It is well organized; and it is possible to read the book from cover to cover, building on knowledge from previous chapters.

Great for a beginner (but not "Complete")

This book covers all the relevant topics for a beginning Solaris SA, clearly and well organized (vs. other P.Waters books).For the more advanced topics, his Sol 9 Complete book looks good.Unfortunately, in this job market, I don't see much need for a "beginner Unix SA", because Sr. SA's (with lots of other exp.) are already a "dime a dozen".

Good exam/beginner's guide

I bought this book last week because I am just a beginner at the whole Solaris thing, coming from a Linux background. The book covers a lot of really good timely topics - LDAP, role based access control etc. - and is written real good. It's like an exam guide which is funny - there are loads of review questions in each chapter and little projects to try out. All in all, it's a very comprehensive book for a beginner. And maybe useful for exam study too (are there certs for Solaris 9 yet?).