The latest edition of Unix System Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein, is an ideal tutorial for those new to administration and an invaluable reference for experienced professionals. The third edition has been expanded to include "direct from the frontlines" coverage of Red Hat Linux. Unix System Administration Handbook describes every aspect of system administration -- from basic topics to Unix esoterica -- and provides explicit coverage of four popular Unix systems: Red Hat Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and FreeBSD. This book stresses a practical approach to system administration. It's packed with war stories and pragmatic advice, not just theory and watered-down restatements of the manuals.

Linux Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent Hein, is the first guide for Linux system administrators that examines how Linux behaves in real-world production environments. Replete with war stories and hard-won insights, it describes difficult tasks in all their complexity, with detailed, true-life examples for three leading distributions: Red Hat, SuSE, and Debian. Coverage includes OS configuration, networking, sendmail, security management, kernel building, performance analysis, routing and more. Includes a foreward by Linus Torvalds.