First to market, "The Solaris 10: The Complete Reference" is a soup-to-nuts reference for administrators migrating from Windows, Linux or previous versions of Solaris. Get an updated and comprehensive Solaris 10 reference that starts at installation and ends at incorporating applications. Use the included resources such as the Solaris 10 installation checklists and procedures, command reference and worked examples to learn how to use this new version to the fullest.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0
doesn't even mention basic service administration:
Most of the services for Solaris 10 are under control of the service management facility (smf - try 'man smf') and the svcs and svcadm command. You can't start, stop, disable, or enable most services without it. This book doesn't even mention them. It still refers to /etc/init.d/ scripts (some are still there but most, such as the various nfs and automount services are not). This isn't a linux or general unix book - the book has 'SOLARIS' on the cover and should reflect Solaris.
A complete mistake:
This book not only doesn't really cover Solaris 10 but previous ones, but also is so full of mistakes, that I am really glad I had the opportunity to check it without buying.
Where's SMF?:
I bought this book because it was the most appropriate book on Solaris 10 that I could find at the bookstore. I am a long time Solaris system administrator, but I wanted a book that specifically talked about the new features of Solaris 10. I didn't know about SMF when I bought the book, but it's a pretty important feature that replaced previous methods of system management in Solaris. I just can't believe that this book does not even mention it. I see other people have complained about the same... more info
AGREED -- DO NOT BUY:
The biggest disappointment for me was no discussion of SMF. If these reviews were here before I bought the book quite a number of months ago, I would not have gotten it. It is indeed a rehash of Solaris 9 ideas. It would have been very helpful if there was some discussion on how to control your own inet connections by modifying an XML template -- but alas there is no mention of this in the book. The one person who rated this a five has obviously not used Solaris 10 very much other than some very basic... more info
