Complete solutions for every Solaris OE sysadmin.

• Step-by-step solutions for every key Solaris OE system administration task

• From basic user administration to complex enterprise networking

• Filesystems, kernels, shells, Internet/DNS, email, PPP, NIS, backup/restore, and much more

• Extensive examples, sample output, and shell scripts

• Includes coverage of Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environments

You already have the man pages: what you need are the answers! With Solaris OE Boot Camp, the answers are right at your fingertips. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience with Sun Microsystems hardware and software, David Rhodes and Dominic Butler walk you through every facet of Solaris OE system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. Rhodes and Butler explain every task in detail-with sample commands, specific output, lists of impacted system files, and in some cases, complete shell scripts. Coverage includes:

• User Administration

• Permissions & Security

• Networking

• Filesystems, including NFS, DFS & Autofs

• Serial & SCSI Connections

• Internet & DNS

• Disk Quotas

• Shells

• Email Configuration & Management

• Backup/Restore

• System Boot/Halt

• PPP Remote Connections

• Kernels & Patches

• Naming Services & NIS

• Package Administration

• Time, Date, & NTP

• And much more...

Whether you've been running the Solaris Operating Environment for a week or a decade, Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp will help you do more, do it faster, and do it better!

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 10 Ratings

The ONLY Solaris SA's Book Worth Having On Your Desk - 2006-01-23
Reviewer Rating:
There are lots of Solaris books on the market, most of which are horrible. This book is the only book that I've seen that covers the OS very completely in a very small page count. Subjects like RBAC, NIS, NFS, ACL's, and other topics that are typically confusing and lengthy reads are presented in this book in only a few short paragraphs but with absolute clarity. Other books talk about something, this book teaches you how it works and how to do it without all the pointless chatter.

Everything presented in this book applies to Solaris 10 as well, it simply lacks coverage of the wide range of new features such as SMF, Zones, DTrace, etc. But don't let that stop you from buying this book!

While the book might seem like a beginners only book, I find it invaluable as a Sr SA. Its extremely embarousing when someone asks you to do something with Solaris that you haven't done for a long time. A common example is working with Sendmail on Solaris... if you spend a lot of time using Postfix or other mail systems it can be a real pain to remember where Sun puts things and how to interact with the stock Sendmail in Solaris. This book has saved me from reading piles of man pages and pulling out full length O'Rielly books to simply remember some simple topic that I just haven't dealt with in a while.

Beginner or Expert, this the best Solaris book to have at arms reach. Period.

Not very good book - 2006-04-13
Reviewer Rating:
I don't understand why the rating of this book is so good. To me it is not realistic. This is an avarage book. The book is missing details. There are lots of mistakes. It is not complete. I understand that to write the book on Solaris(Unix) and explain all the details of it, the book should be over 1000 pages. If the authors don't have such a patience and dedication they should not write the books. The should leave students to read documentation from Sun website or man pages. I don't have any book to recomend. The book is still good comparing to other books on Unix, which are terrible. But chapters are not finished.

Excellent if new to Unix / Solaris - 2008-02-23
Reviewer Rating:
This book is very useful to me as I am new to Solaris / Unix / Linux and
many issues that were glossed over in other books are explained in detail.

Sun Microsystems is good about documenting and sharing information so anyone who wants to learn abt Unix or Linux can use Solaris and this book as an educational tool.

Get Another Book on Solaris - 2007-02-04
Reviewer Rating:
I cannot say I am very impressed with this book. Granted, maybe the title 'Boot Camp' should have been a give away, but you just don't walk away from this book knowing even enough to be dangerous. Maybe peel potatoes.

My reading of the book progressed something like this: I would work my way through the chapter, following the author every step of the way as best I could (given system differences), the procedure would not work, I would look up the correct way to do things on the internet, and the problem would be solved. And the information on the internet is FREE.

Where the book really fails is it does not cover topics in a way that would allow you to extrapolate from the situation covered in the book to another, similar situation that you may be having. Back to the internet.

The author also breaks a cardinal rule of system administration: he makes multiple changes at the same time. This leaves you, the reader, having to re-trace multiple steps to identify the problem when the procedure covered in the text fails on your particular system. Back to the internet.

The book does have a nice feature: it lists all the man pages and files you will be using at the beginning of the chapter. Not to say this helped me resolve many of the problems I had, but it is still a nice feature.

This leaves me to suggest you purchase another book on Solaris and you use the internet where you would have used this text.

Good but dated - 2009-03-09
Reviewer Rating:
I quite enjoyed reading this. In particular the most interesting ascpect is the way that a small network is slowly built up, adding features like NFS/automount, NIS+/DNS, snedmail.

On the downside, much of the material is dated and no longer applies to Solaris 10 [and OpenSolaris]. For instance, chapter 2 on boot rc scripts is now obsolete, replaced by the new services architecture. Also, the chapter on PPP is probabably of limited use/interest - who uses dial-up modems nowadays?

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