2 Mar
2023
2 Mar
'23
12:34 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:34:33PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 8:38 PM Will Senn
<will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
i'll agree here with you on that, but i will say that as a front line sysadmin
at the time it was one of the few resources i had that covered how to do basic
tasks correctly across many unix systems. it helped me alot as a sysadmin for
hire early in my career - esp when i had to fix something at a site with a poorly
maintained unix i may not have had much experience with at the time - "sure i can
fix your print spooler running hpux".
-pete
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Pete Wright
pete(a)nomadlogic.org
I'm curious about the experience of those of
y'all who actually used them. Were there any early standouts and why did they stand
out?
This is not going to be popular, but...
Nemeth, E., Synder, G., & Seebass, S. (1989).
UNIX System Administration Handbook (5th edition is another fatty)
This book gave me some terrible advice when I was very young and impressionable.
In there somewhere it says something about not doing something unless
you're prepared to do it right lest one spend more time working around
a work-around than one would have spent just doing it well in the
first place.