UNIX User’s Handbook (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
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Applications come and applications go, but Unix remains a constant force. Knowledge of this reliable, eminently scalable operating system will never go out of style, and you’ll never regret having a high-quality Unix reference like Unix User’s Handbook around. This supersized, hardback volume contains (in a [...]
Windows NT, UNIX, NetWare Migration/Coexistence: A Professional’s Guide (Hardcover)
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Many “overview” books assume that the reader is a semi-animated managerial type who can’t handle any technicalities at all. Thankfully, Windows NT, UNIX, NetWare Migration and Coexistence: A Professional’s Guide isn’t like that. In this book, Rajagopal provides decision-makers with a comprehensive [...]
Samba: UNIX and NT Internetworking (Paperback)
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However ardently the Unix community may wish for it, Windows NT (and its successors) aren’t going away. Furthermore, the idea of a “Windows shop” that is distinct from a “Unix shop” is unrealistic in many cases. Samba allows Windows NT machines to interact with Unix machines [...]
Using Unix (Using) (Paperback)
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The authors of Using Unix break the universe of Unix tasks into manageable chapters, presenting coherent instructions that will help you accomplish a great deal with System V and Solaris.
For example, if you want to compare the contents of files without [...]
System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly System Administration) (Paperback)
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The easy way to solve a performance problem–and the one to which hardware manufacturers love to call attention–is to apply more horsepower to the application in question. It’s safe to bet that a server upgrade will speed things up. True information technology professionals, however, won’t take [...]
Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther (Paperback)
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The stable, adaptable Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X surely have contributed to the operating system’s fantastic success in the market. The trouble for the Mac loyal, though, is that nothing could be further removed from the friendly Mac user interface than the Unix shell environment. [...]
UNIX System Administrator’s Bible (Paperback)
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While many books in this series are plodding, multi-author tomes to which editors add tons of ancillary information, Unix System Administrator’s Bible is the exception. If you’ve just been assigned Unix administration duties and have little knowledge of the operating system, this [...]
Unix Unleashed (4th Edition) (Paperback)
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Using Solaris 8 and Linux 7.1 as their reference flavors, Robin Anderson and Andy Johnston (as well as a slew of contributors) show how to be a system administrator–and get all sorts of other work done–in the fourth edition of Unix Unleashed. Significantly different from its [...]
UNIX Backup and Recovery [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
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The Unix file system is reliable and very well-suited to mission-critical applications in which maximum uptime is key. But it’s not flawless, and that’s where Unix Backup & Recovery comes in. This book details dozens of strategies for keeping Unix systems online. The strategies range from [...]
CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System (Sams White Book) (Paperback)
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One of the problems with Unix is its spotty support for printers. Before the advent of the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), a particular printer needed a driver for, say, System V Unix, and a separate driver for FreeBSD. The problem has become particularly pronounced now [...]