Book Description
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. For programmers in need of a better understanding of UNIX systems programming. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an (more…)

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“Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense.”
–Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse (more…)

Book description This edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security provides detailed coverage of today’s increasingly important security and networking issues. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today–Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD–this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more. When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion for the Unix/Linux system administrator who needs to secure his or her organization’s system, networks, and web presence in an increasingly hostile world. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today–Solaris,

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The in-depth UNIX guide for every end-user: completely updated and full of examples!

* For every key UNIX platform: practical examples, real depth!
* Covers all basic UNIX commands, plus sed, grep, awk, vi, and more
* Complete shell programming coverage—plus NEW programming section covering C/C++, Java(tm), and Internet development
* KornShell, Bash, C Shell, and Shell Programming
* Windows interoperability, in depth: Samba, NFS, Windows 2000 Services for UNIX, and much more (more…)

Book Info
Designed to help you maximize system integrity and availability on any Unix system-including clusters, monitor systems, disks, networks applications, and databases, with tips for recovery and prevention. Provides quick reference diagnostics and recovery section for systems operators. Softcover. DLC: UNIX (Computer file).

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Preface

This book is intended for system administrators and operators who are (more…)

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Author Bill Calkins is the leading voice of this industry, and he’s once again delivered the perfect study companion for UNIX system professionals preparing for the Solaris 9 System Administrator exams (310-014 and 310-015). Readers preparing for this exam find our Training Guide series to be the most efficient self-study tool in the market. This book is their one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying PrepLogic testing software, and superior Web site support at www.quepublishing.com/certification. Training Guides are subjected to rigorous technical review by a team of industry experts, and are Cramsession Approved Study Material! (more…)

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FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs.

About the Author
Michael Lucas is a columnist for the O’Reilly Network and a contributor to Sys Admin Magazine. He has been a pet wrangler, a librarian, a security consultant, and now (more…)

Book Description UNIX Hints & Hacks is designed to instantly reward you through increased productivity and satisfaction with UNIX. Each and every hint and/or hack provides real value–not just a list of obvious procedures marked as secrets. Learn UNIX administration skills you can apply daily with UNIX workstations and servers. Discover networking tricks to make modifications safely over the network. Tackle security issues such as dealing with SuperUser accounts, permissions, and vulnerabilities in the UNIX operating system. Develop various ways to monitor the system logs and load averages, to aid in the tuning, fixing, and security. Also learn to add, manipulate, and modify user accounts in new ways, and improve your file management skills for modifying, viewing, and executin. With UNIX Hints & Hacks you’ll look up from the reading and say, “I can’t wait to try that!” Amazon.com Unix Hints & Hacks covers the science and art of Unix system administration comprehensively.

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Language: English
ISBN: 0071613749
Paperback: 720 pages
Released: Jan 2009

THE WORLD’S #1 BEST SELLING COMPUTER SECURITY BOOK–fully expanded and updated.”Right now you hold in your hand one of the most successful security books ever written. Rather than eing a sideline participant, leverage the valuable insights (more…)

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