Solaris 9: The Complete Reference

by Paul A. Watters

Book Overview

Covering everything from installation and networking essentials, to file system management and details on NIS/NIS+ and DNS servicesthis is the ideal guide for both implementing a Solaris system from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072223057
• ISBN13: 9780072223057
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great seller!!! Outstanding shipping time! A+++++ seller

Product arrived in warp time and in outstanding condition!

Super!

I manage several hundred UNIX and Linux servers in Europe for a banque. This book is the best I have read about Solaris specifically for a very long time. It provides many worked examples and clear, well-written English. This is very important for second language English speakers like me. Please keep up the great work and look forward to "Solaris 10".

quitspam should quite while he's ahead...

I wonder why someone would buy the Solaris 8 version of this book, write a complaint, and then buy the Solaris 9 version of the book, and write another complaint? quitspam's review is full of incorrect information and seems malicious in intent. The Solaris 9 beta has been out for over a year. Book has plenty of coverage of volume management in the book and partitioning. Projects for user accounts (let me guess, quitspam still enables "finger"..., no security there)?? Plenty of material on printing (too much I'd reckon). Significant coverage of JumpStart. I'd encourage other readers to judge the book for themselves by checking out the table of contents.quitspam, quit while you are ahead because you have no credibility.

Vast improvement

I bought the Solaris 8 version of this book. It was OK but did not contain sufficient material on the new technologies. I ordered the Solaris 9 version of the book because it's the only Solaris 9 book around. I am happy to report that this book covers new technologies like RBAC, LDAP and the resource manager. These are so much more important for the enterprise than GNOME. Strong emphasis on disks - format, partition, volume management, backups - is good and logically ordered. The only thing I would like to see is more coverage on application servers, databases, message queues and other uses of Solaris in large firms. But that's probably an architecture book with a different focus.

Bigger and better

I'm working with the Solaris 9 beta right now. This book has wide coverage of all the usual UNIX topics - devices, processes, shell, programming - as well as the Solaris-specific topics - NIS+, volume management, role-based access control. THANK YOU for including a chapter on LDAP - this will entirely change our network structure. My favorite chapter was advanced security - but Trusted Solaris should have had its own chapter. I have version 8 of this book and this edition is a vast improvement on the last one.But when will Sun release Solaris 9/x86? That's my biggest problem right now.