[buug] UNIX/LINUX Systems Administration book recommendation(s) (?)

Michael Paoli mp at rawbw.com
Tue Mar 15 23:25:35 PST 2005


A question I seem to get asked every once in a while, is
on recommendations for UNIX/LINUX Systems Administration
books.

Unfortunately, as I haven't read much in the way of such a more
general book (having mostly learned from man pages and more
specific topic books and/or other documentation ... and of course
practice and experience), I can't offer much in the way of personally
comparing and contrasting such books, however ...

I have, however, generally and consistently heard good things about
_Unix System Administration Handbook_ - Evi Nemeth, et. al.
I'd also think it highly probable that
_Linux Administration Handbook_ - Evi Nemeth, et. al.
is of similar quality.

O'Reilly is also an excellent source of technical books.
I've heard people highly recommend and use:
Essential System Administration - Æleen Frisch

references:
http://www.admin.com/
http://www.oreilly.com/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/



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