 |
A Practical Guide to Solaris View Larger Image | Mark G. Sobell
Addison-Wesley, Paperback, Published June 1999, 1112 pages, ISBN 020189548X | List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $60.50
You Save: $9.49 (14% Off)
| | | Availability: Out-Of-Stock |
Customer Reviews: 6 Average Customer Rating:    Write a Review and tell the world about this title! Books on similar topics, in best-seller order: Books from the same publisher, in best-seller order:
Written by best-selling author Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to
Solaris enables both novice and experienced users to quickly learn Sun
Microsystems' popular Solaris operating system. Designed to maximize accessibility,
the book is divided into three parts. Part I is a tutorial that brings novice
users--those with no UNIX/Solaris background, or no programming experience
at all--quickly up to speed. Part II is geared toward intermediate and advanced
users. Part III is a comprehensive reference guide covering more than ninety
Solaris utilities with a clarity of explanation and range of examples not
available from any other source.
A Practical Guide to Solaris provides invaluable information on
the following:
- Solaris 7 (a.k.a. Solaris 2.7), as well as Solaris 2.6 and earlier
versions for Intel and SPARC hardware. For beginning and experienced
end users and C and shell programmers using either a command line or GUI
interface.
- Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Learning and using the X Window
System and the CDE and OpenLook desktop managers. Offers extensive discussions
of CDE and X customization.
- Networking, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. Explains what
a network is, how it works, and how you can use it. Discusses types of
networks, network implementations, distributed computing, how to use the
network for communicating with other users, and using various networking
utilities (such as rcp, telnet, ftp, nslookup, and more).
- Shells. Describes how to use the Bourne (sh), C (csh), and Korn
(ksh) Shells as interactive command interpreters and as programming languages
so you can write shell scripts. Extensive coverage of builtin commands,
shell variables, options, customization, functions, and programming techniques.
- System Administration. Covers system operation from SPARC PROM
mode/booting an Intel x86 through multiuser mode; types of files, including
- symbolic links and special files; adding and removing users, printers,
devices and drivers; installing software, sharing and backing up filesystems,
network services, system reports (sar, iostat, and more) and admintool;
installing patches and system software; and problem solving.
- Programming Tools and Concepts. Covers both the Solaris (cc)
and GNU (gcc) C compilers, debugging (lint and gcc warnings), shared libraries,
make, SCCS, and more.
These essential topics are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format
with the help of the following:
- Examples. Both interactive and shell script examples are used
throughout Parts I and II to provide added insight into Solaris features.
Part III includes examples of more than ninety Solaris utilities.
- Tutorials. Step-by-step tutorials cover the vi, dtpad (CDE),
and textedit (OpenLook) text editors; the dtmail (CDE), mailtool (OpenLook),
and pine mail programs; the pine and Netscape newsreaders; the Netscape
browser; and how to use a search engine. All tutorials are illustrated
with real-world examples so you can practice as you read.
- Appendixes and Glossary. These cover regular expressions, POSIX
standards, and security. The Help! appendix provides assistance on using
your hardware and for locating, downloading, and installing Sun, public,
and GNU software (including gzip and gcc).
- A Web site (www.sobell.com). Maintained by the author, this site
provides help in locating Solaris documentation, software, patches, and
free items, as well as corrections to, and downloadable examples from,
this book.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION TO SOLARIS.
1. The Solaris Operating System.
2. Getting Started.
3. The Solaris Utilities.
4. The Solaris Filesystem.
5. The Shell I.
II. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED SOLARIS.
6. Graphical User Interfaces.
7. Networking and the Internet.
8. The vi Editor.
9. The emacs Editor.
10. The Shell II (sh).
11. Bourne Shell Programming.
12. The C Shell.
13. The Korn Shell and Advanced Shell
Programming.
14. Programming Tools.
15. System Administration.
III. THE SOLARIS UTILITY PROGRAMS.
Appendix A. Regular Expressions.
Appendix B. Help!
Appendix C. Security.
Appendix D. The POSIX Standards.
About the Author
Mark G. Sobell is the author of three best-selling UNIX and Linux books:
A Practical Guide to the UNIX System, UNIX System V: A Practical
Guide, and A Practical Guide to Linux. He has more than twenty
years of experience working with UNIX and Linux and is president of Sobell
Associates Inc., a consulting firm that designs and builds custom software
applications, designs and writes documentation, and provides UNIX and
Linux training and support.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 6 Average Customer Rating: Aug 3, 2001 Derek Myles from Boise, Idaho
Outstanding Solaris Reference
Though System Administrators may not find all the information they need (Kernel Parameter explanations, in-depth, user additions, NFS/NIS+ enviromental stipulations, etc) this book is an outstanding Solaris Reference for users as well as DBA's that have to deal with the day to day operations in a Sun Solaris environment.
The example "screen shots" in this text, explanations of variables & parameters, along with in depth - yet quick - explanations of Bourne, C, and Korn Shell script writing - makes this a very handy, and time reducing reference to add to any Unix library.
All explanations of parameters & commands by variation in shell are clearly marked with a highlight key - a very helpful feature needed in more Unix books. Though it shouldn't be the sole, it should be one of the references used by an intermediate level Solaris user or DBA.
Jun 11, 2001 john from NY,ny
unpractical guide to solaris
this book will not help you if you are planing to become a sys admin.
Jan 8, 2001 Jenny from Texas
Good book for Beginner
This is a good book for begginer of Saloris, but not good enough for system admin
Nov 30, 2000
Great Reference for Experienced UNIX Admins
This book has been a great reference for those UNIX specifics you don't need to memorize. I strongly recommnend this book and Mark Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux' too. May be a bit confusing for beginners.
Mar 22, 2000
Very comprehensive and easy to read
As an intermediate level user I found this book an excellent review and resource. Plain language made it easy to read and understand. I recommend it to others.
Feb 16, 2000 TD from Atlanta, GA
Surprisingly bad
Bad. Really bad. Virtually unreadable. The autor takes over 1100 pages to say very little of any importance. Would you believe that there is a total of one paragraph on how to add a user? Out of 1100 pages? The various switches for this command aren't even explained. Now I'm going to have to go buy another book (I won't buy a book sight unseen anymore).
|
|
