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| Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp (Solaris Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Rhodes, Dominic Butler
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 86642
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0130342874
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 076092022565
EAN: 9780130342874
ASIN: 0130342874
Publication Date: September 21, 2002
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Product Description
This book covers Solaris 8 and 9 as well as earlier versions. Each chapter starts with a list of relevant manual pages and system files that are related to the tasks described in the chapter. All tasks are explained in detail and illustrated with example commands and the relevant output that system administrators will encounter. Chapters are presented in chronological order and cover the steps that system administrators follow to build systems. For example, Rhodes and Butler start by adding users onto a single system, add the system to the network, move on to configuring services such as NFS and NTP--which rely on the newly-configured network--and so forth until they have built a complex of networked machines using NIS, NTP and a multitude of other services.The code examples in the book have all been built and tested on the systems described in that chapter. Rhodes and Butler also provide a number of tools, which can be used to monitor and manage the system, and define a hierarchy for configuring both the servers and clients. This is the companion to the Solaris System Administrators Reference by Janice Winsor (0130277010)!
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 Excellent if new to Unix / Solaris February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very useful to me as I am new to Solaris / Unix / Linux and
many issues that were glossed over in other books are explained in detail.
Sun Microsystems is good about documenting and sharing information so anyone who wants to learn abt Unix or Linux can use Solaris and this book as an educational tool.
 Get Another Book on Solaris February 4, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot say I am very impressed with this book. Granted, maybe the title 'Boot Camp' should have been a give away, but you just don't walk away from this book knowing even enough to be dangerous. Maybe peel potatoes.
My reading of the book progressed something like this: I would work my way through the chapter, following the author every step of the way as best I could (given system differences), the procedure would not work, I would look up the correct way to do things on the internet, and the problem would be solved. And the information on the internet is FREE.
Where the book really fails is it does not cover topics in a way that would allow you to extrapolate from the situation covered in the book to another, similar situation that you may be having. Back to the internet.
The author also breaks a cardinal rule of system administration: he makes multiple changes at the same time. This leaves you, the reader, having to re-trace multiple steps to identify the problem when the procedure covered in the text fails on your particular system. Back to the internet.
The book does have a nice feature: it lists all the man pages and files you will be using at the beginning of the chapter. Not to say this helped me resolve many of the problems I had, but it is still a nice feature.
This leaves me to suggest you purchase another book on Solaris and you use the internet where you would have used this text.
 Not very good book April 13, 2006
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I don't understand why the rating of this book is so good. To me it is not realistic. This is an avarage book. The book is missing details. There are lots of mistakes. It is not complete. I understand that to write the book on Solaris(Unix) and explain all the details of it, the book should be over 1000 pages. If the authors don't have such a patience and dedication they should not write the books. The should leave students to read documentation from Sun website or man pages. I don't have any book to recomend. The book is still good comparing to other books on Unix, which are terrible. But chapters are not finished.
The ONLY Solaris SA's Book Worth Having On Your Desk January 23, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
There are lots of Solaris books on the market, most of which are horrible. This book is the only book that I've seen that covers the OS very completely in a very small page count. Subjects like RBAC, NIS, NFS, ACL's, and other topics that are typically confusing and lengthy reads are presented in this book in only a few short paragraphs but with absolute clarity. Other books talk about something, this book teaches you how it works and how to do it without all the pointless chatter.
Everything presented in this book applies to Solaris 10 as well, it simply lacks coverage of the wide range of new features such as SMF, Zones, DTrace, etc. But don't let that stop you from buying this book!
While the book might seem like a beginners only book, I find it invaluable as a Sr SA. Its extremely embarousing when someone asks you to do something with Solaris that you haven't done for a long time. A common example is working with Sendmail on Solaris... if you spend a lot of time using Postfix or other mail systems it can be a real pain to remember where Sun puts things and how to interact with the stock Sendmail in Solaris. This book has saved me from reading piles of man pages and pulling out full length O'Rielly books to simply remember some simple topic that I just haven't dealt with in a while.
Beginner or Expert, this the best Solaris book to have at arms reach. Period.
Best Solaris Administration Book August 12, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
At last a book that is worth every cent!
A must have book for any Solaris Administrator, novice or expert.
You will not be dissapointed..
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