The Complete Systems Administrator

By Curt Freeland and Dwight McKay

The Complete Systems Administrator is a cross-platform manual aimed at equipping IT professionals with no-nonsense solutions to everyday challenges involved in installing, configuring, and maintaining... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766835197
• ISBN13: 9780766835191
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: OnWord Press
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 2.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Good, but too much linux

I myself am not the biggest Microsoft fan, but the authors of this book take it to a whole new level. In discussing different server tasks they often go out of their way with little side notes and other comments to make sure we know how awful Microsoft is and how great Linux is. I think it kind of detracts from the book overall, which is pretty good. After the first few times where their comments are funny, the subsequent comments just get annoying. Another issue with their Linux-obsession is that they assume coming in that people who read this book will have a fairly good working knowledge of Linux, thus if you are a newbie in Linux, this would be a good second book, but not a good place to start, as you will be lost much of the time, or spend hours searching the Internet trying to figure out what they are talking about it.

The Complete SysAdmin

Excellent text on the duties of a SysAdmin. Easy to comprehend, concise and covers the realm of duties in detail. Chapters are organized to allow quick and easy access for reference. If you are a SysAdmin or if you are going to be one - Buy this Book! Theo

Solid, Comprehensive tome of knowledge

The Complete systems Administrator lives up to the "complete" part of it's name. This book covers nearly every area I could possibly think I'd ever need t look up in a network administration/system administration role. Unfortunately despite the fact this book is only four years at this point, I believe it already is beginning to show it's age. There is a lot of attention given to HP/UX, and AIX in this book with suprisingly minor attention given to Linux. I think it's safe to say that a typical sysadmin-type employee would be encountering many more Linux systems that HP/UX or AIX these days. Information on devices and buses such as SATA is also lacking due to the technology being newer then the date on the book. That said, this book is still great and recommended but with the caveats mentioned above. I would look forward to an updated version of this book with more emphasis on Linux, updated info on Vista, Server 2003, and newer versions of OS X.

Specific topics, but broad range - very useful

This book is a great book to have around to help solve some of the problems encountered day to day. I haven't found a topic that hasn't been covered in this book, and the authors hit the nail on the head when describing subjects. This is a great book for anyone who deals with multi-platform networks. I reach for it first every time I see a current or potential problem. 90% of the time I can just use this book instead of having to search through topic-specific manuals and references.