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Solaris Essential Reference
John P.Mulligan
A useful handbook for Solaris admins. Covers Solaris 2.5,
2.6 and Solaris 7 (the Operating System formerly known as 2.7).
Published 1999.
A reference guide to be dipped into rather than read cover
to cover. Chapters include all the usual stuff for setting up
a system, adding users etc including chapters on:
Text Utilities - Sed, Awk, vi Shell Scripting , environmental
variables. Process control. Networks and network admin, TCP/IP,
NFS. Startup and shutdown - run states, power management, rc
scripts. Filesystems. Security, Kerberos, audit daemon.
Appendix includes a detail of changes from Solaris 2.2 through
to 7. By design the book omits any information about X, Openlook,
CDE or any of the graphical tools but confines itself to command
line operations.
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Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
Although Sun recommend taking their training courses in order
to pass their Sun Solaris certification exams, it is not mandatory.
A cheaper option for those who already have some Unix experience
and access to the Solaris operating system is self study. With
some practical experience these two books are the only ones needed
in our opinion to become a Certified Solaris Administrator.
Sun now makes the Solaris Operating Systems available free
of charge for private educational use for both the Sparc and
x86 platforms. Potential users of the x86 version should carefully
check the Sun Hardware Compatibility list to see if their machine
is on there. The range of hardware that Solaris runs on is generally
less than Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc
Solaris 7 System Administrator Exam Cram
Darrell L. Ambro
A book specifically design to get students through the certification
exams -an "exam cram" book. Some additional study and
hands on experience will be needed. It includes sample tests
so students can get a feel for what to expect before shelling
out the money for the real thing and going halfway across town
to find an examination centre. The criticism of the book is that
it focusses purely on getting people through the exam rather
than background material - which to be fair to the author and
publisher is their entire goal.
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