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Guy,
You may already have this:
as it is currently out of print -- it's sitting on my bookshelf at home
The Unix-Hater's Handbook Simson Garfinkel and Daniel Wiese
Rachel
>From: "Guy Hammond" <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: UNIX SA
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:35:20 -0800
>
>Hi,
>
>Do you have any Unix SA experience already? If not, maybe a general Unix
>SA book would be more useful than specializing in Solaris straight away,
>O'Reilly publish "Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference" and "Essential
>System Administration". I've only actually read the latter, it is a good
>general overview and reference.
>
>The reason I say this, is because all Unixes are basically similar when
>it comes to configuration, but vendors like to put their own tools on
>too, for example AIX has SMIT, Sun have their admintool, etc. Best to
>learn the underlying structure so you'll be at home on any system. Then
>learn the platform specific stuff. Unix is "quirky" for example
>
>* in /etc/system, the comment character is *
>* in /etc/sendmail.cf the comment character is #
>* in /etc/named.boot the comment character is ;
>* in source code, the comment is /* */ (like in PL/SQL).
>
>If you mark your comments in the wrong way in the wrong file, you might
>end up with a system that cannot even boot! (Offtopic: if you have been
>on this list for a while, you will know that I hate Unix, but know a lot
>about it. The two go together).
>
>HTH,
>
>g
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:23 AM
>To: Guy Hammond
>
>
>Guy , thanks a lot !
>Just another question :
>what do U recommend to START with , for a beginner , like me .
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:05 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>The Solaris FAQ:
>
>http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html
>
>Sun's own documentation, all available online for free (in PDF too):
>
>http://docs.sun.com/
>
>The "Ferrari book" is excellent, even tho' that's actually a Porsche on
>the cover:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130952494/qid=994751878/sr=1-3/r
>ef=sc_b_3/103-7758889-6011002
>
>And for the truly hard of core, Solaris Internals:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130224960/ref=lm_lb_3/103-775888
>9-6011002
>
>HTH,
>
>g
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:55 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
>Dear list !
>I'd like to start getting into some beginner level UNIX (Solaris) system
>administration .
>I have some knowledge in UNIX (scripting, basic commands , etc ... -
>user/programmer/DBA level , not a sys. admin. level).
>
>Can U please recommend what to start with ?
>I prefer free resources on the web over the books i'll have to buy, off
>course.
>Thanks a lot for your recommendations.
>Andrey.
>
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