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Reading List for the Senior System Administrator
As we learn our way around the Linux and UNIX systems,
we also learn that it impossible to know everything. But
these days we have a number of advantages that helps us to
learn new pieces of that puzzle. The internet and search
engines, such as Google, and the many books that are
available, makes it possible for us to to stay current on
the tools taht we need to use in our everyday work.
This book list is intended to help out the senior Linux
& UNIX system administrator to find good books that
will help us to stay proficient as system
administrators.
If your favorite Linux or Unix system administation book
is not included in this book list and you believe it should
be, please send me an e-mail with your suggestions.
Happy Reading
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UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd
Edition)
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and
Trent R. Hein
This book is a clasic. Since the first edition in
1989, this book have covered nearly every aspect of
Unix System Administration. As none of us knows
everything, this is a handy reference book, even in
these days of Internet and search—engines
galore.
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Linux Administration Handbook (2nd Edition)
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein
This book is by the same authors as the one above,
but is specific to Linux. The comments from above
goes for this book too
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Blueprints for High Availability
by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern.
This is one of the best books I have seen on this
topic. While I do not agree on everything the authors
suggest, they are right on the mark most of the time.
A must have for every system administrator
responsible for a server farm in a data center.
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High Availability Network Fundamentals (With
CD-ROM)
by Chris Oggerino.
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LDAP System Administration
by Gerald Carter
This book is a good starting point for system
administrators. As many O'reilly books, it takes a
practical approach to its topic.
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DNS & BIND Cookbook (Paperback)
by Cricket Liu
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Essential SNMP, Second Edition
by Douglas Mauro and Kevin Schmidt
This is a practical book on SNMP. It starts from
the begining with a basic introduction to the SNMP
protocol and walk the readers through many of the
pitfalls in using SNMP. It covers HP OpenView, but is
also using Net-SNMP to show many of the principles.
It is therefore useful to anybody who wants to learn
more about SNMP, and who does not have access to an
commersial tools. It have many good examples and it
attempts to answer the readers questions.
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DNS & BIND (5th Edition)
by Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz.
This book is a must for every system administrator
working with DNS. It explains the workings of DNS
step by step, staring out with the basic.
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Postfix: The Definitive Guide
by Kyle Dent
After using Sendmail for many, many years, I took
Postfix out for trial run, and have not looked back
ever since. If you are still running sendmail, you
would be well serverd by checking out Postfix, and
this is the book to do it with.
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sendmail, 3rd Edition
by Bryan Costales and Eric Allman
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sendmail Cookbook
by Craig Hunt
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The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message
Transport
by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter
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