Guide to UNIX System Administration

Provides a solid, hands-on foundation of the UNIX operating system, and offers detailed coverage of installation, management, and administration.

Guide to UNIX Administration provides a solid foundation on which to build your knowledge of the UNIX operating system. This text begins with an overview of UNIX, detailed installation instructions and a discussion of the file system types. Next, it covers file and directory security, and system administration before progressing to more advanced topics such as the Shell Environment, package and Logfile Management, and Archiving User Data.

Jason Eckert is an experienced T&T author. He has adapted the first 3 T&T/Novell texts for the academic market. A graduate of the University of Waterloo, Jason has 13 years of experience as a UNIX administrator and software developer, mainly in large batch-scientific computing environments. He currently teaches at triOS College and holds 12 different UNIX and Linux certifications. He has authored or co-authored several texts for TnT, including Linux+ Guide to Linux Networking and MCSE Guide to Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network.

A graduate of McMaster University, M. John Schitka is a former instructor at triOS College. Initially teaching NT4 technologies, he currently conducts courses on Windows 2000, UNIX, Linux, and more.