Customer Review: Might be confusing for some who don't realize that various flavours of UNINX and Linux abound but so what! This book is not supposed to teach that kind of thing anyway.
Customer Review: The tips are very useful in datacenter, daily.
This tips & tools about the things inside Linux O/S, such as: Linux administration basic, backup, networking, SSH, Scripting, DNS.
Customer Review: Excellent Book. Who said an old dog can't learn new tricks. Found several little tid-bits that have trimmed a number of my scripts or changed the way I've implemented services! A great desktop companion for advanced and intermediate admins.
Customer Review: Last year, I was forced to become a fly-by-night system administrator. I worked for a small, local startup as its web developer, but was thrust into a sysadmin role when my boss decided to host a website on a server in our office. I was developing the site on our Ubuntu server, but was learning how... more info
Running Linux from O'Reilly Media, Inc. Price: $32.97
Customer Review: BEWARE: Many of these customer reviews are dated. For example, the best and worst cited by Amazon are from 1999 and 2001, respectively. This is the 5th edition, published in late 2005/early 2006. FYI... I gave it four stars simply because what I did read was very helpful, but I have much more... more info
Customer Review: Theres plenty of information in here, but the biggest problem I had with working my way through the book is it's structure. The book presents the topics in a bottom-up way, kicking off with low-level xinetd & init configuration, and doesn't actually get down to an overview of clustering until... more info
Customer Review: Make no mistake, this book is on what it says it's about "Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort" it contains very little information about setting up iptables to block unwanted external traffic. HOWEVER setting up iptables (in the basic sense) doesn't require an entire... more info
Customer Review: While this rather large book does cover many Red Hat topics, it does so with little depth. You'll be much better informed by actually installing and configuring Red Hat/CentOS and reading the man pages. Caveat Emptor.
Customer Review: The authors initiate a very interesting subject, with very easy informative style of delivery. Looking forward of going through more advanced material by the authors with such valuable information.
