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Previous Chapter UNIX System Administrator's Reference Library.
The following books are used widely by Unix systems administrators on campus. Many are available for loan through the University Library system (use Willow to locate them).
- Essential System Administration, Aeleen Frisch (O'Reilly & Associates, Second Edition 1995, ISBN 1-56592-127-5)
- Unix System Administration Handbook , Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein (Prentice Hall, Second Edition 1995, ISBN 0-13-151051-7)
- ASP Unix Reference Series: Unix Quick Reference Guide, (Fast Unix Reference for System Adminstrators, Programmers, and Users), Anatole Olczak (ASP, Inc. San Jose, CA, 1996, ISBN 0-935739-25-4, asp@aspinc.com; www.aspinc.com)
- The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (Prentice-Hall, 1984, ISBN 0-13-937681-X {PBK})
- UNIX Power Tools, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides (O'Reilly and Associates, 1993, ISBN 0-553-35402-7)
- Learning the Korn Shell, Bill Rosenblatt (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993, ISBN 1-56592-054-6)
- Student's Guide to Unix, Harley Hahn (McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN 0-07-025511-3)
- Programming Perl, Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-64-1)
- Managing Projects with make, Steve Talbott, (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-18-8)
- UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook, Bruce H. Hunter and Karen Bradford Hunter (Macmillan)
- sendmail, Bryan Costales, Eric Allman, and Neil Rickert, (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993, ISBN 1-56592-056-2)
- When You Can't Find Your System Administrator, Linda Mui, (O'Reilly & Associates, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-104-6)
- Love Your Job, Dr. Paul Powers with Deborah Russell (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993, ISBN 1-56592-036-8)
- Practical UNIX Security, Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-72-2)
- Unix System Security: A Guide for Users and System Administrators, David A. Curry (Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56327-4)
- Firewalls & Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Cheswick, William R. and Bellowin, Steven M. (Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63357-4)
- @ Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion, Charles C. Mann & David H. Freedman, (Simon & Schuster Trade, 0-684-82464-7) ["U.S. News 06/02/97: Adaptations from ``At Large," a cracker's escapades"]
- Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, Suelette Dreyfus (Mandarin [Reed Books Australia], ISBN 1-86330-595-5)
- Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace, Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner (HarperPerennial, ISBN 0-06-017030-1)
- The Fugitive Game, Jonathan Littman (Little, Brown & Company, ISBN 0-316-52858-7)
- TCP/IP Network Administration, Craig Hunt (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, ISBN 0-937175-82-X)
- Managing NFS and NIS, Hal Stern (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-75-1)
- Managing UUCP and Usenet, Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino (O'Reilly & Associates, 1990, ISBN 0-937175-48-X)
- Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, Edward Krol (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, ISBN 1565920252)
- Internet Companion: a Beginner's Guide to Global Networking, Tracy L. LaQuay (Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0201622246)
- Internet passport : NorthWestNet guide to our world online, Jonathan Kochmer (NorthWestNet and Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Inc., 1993, ISBN 0963528106)
- DNS and BIND, Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, ISBN 1-56592-010-4)
- Managing Internet Services: World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, and More, Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye (O'Reilly & Associates, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-062-7)
- Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide (OSF/Motif Edition), Valerie Quercia and Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, ISBN 0-937175-61-7)
- Volume 8: X Window System Administrator's Guide (for X Version 11), Linda Mui and Eric Pearce (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, ISBN 0-937175-83-8)
- The Joy of X, Niall Mansfield (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-56512-9)
- System Performance Tuning, Mike Loukides (O'Reilly & Associates, 1990, ISBN 0-937175-60-9)
- The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Maurice J. Bach(Prentice Hall, 1986, ISBN 0132017997)
- The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall K. McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman, (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-06196-1)
- The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of UNIX System V Release 4, an Open-Systems Design, Goodheart, Bernard M. and Cox, James, (Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130981389)
- SysAdmin (R&D Publications, Inc., 1601 W. 23rd., Ste 200, Lawrence, KS 66046, ISSN 1061-2688). Subscriptions: 1-913-841-1631. (Archived program source from articles also available at ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/sysadmin/)
- RS/Magazine (Computer Publishing Group, ISSN 1061-0030) Subscriptions: cirq@expert.com.
- SunExpert (Computer Publishing Group, ISSN 1053-9239) Subscriptions: cirq@expert.com.
- Advanced Systems (Integrated Media, Inc., ISSN 1046-5456) Subscriptions: 1-800-685-3435.
- OpenSystemsToday (CMP Publications) Subscriptions: 1-708-647-6834.
- Open Computing (McGraw-Hill, Inc., ISSN 0739-5922) Subscriptions: 1-800-525-5003. Online version available at http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/.
- UNIX Review (Miller Freeman, Inc., ISSN 0742-3136) Subscriptions: 1-800-829-5475.
- UnixWorld Online (available at http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/)