SunSoft Press - Books Available from Ziff-Davis Press


Order information for the following 3 books is provided at the end of this file.

Additional book information, including Preface, Table of Contents, and a picture of the front cover are available for each title below.


Guide to Solaris

John Pew
625 pages; $34.95 US
ISBN 1-56276-087-4

Written for the end user, GUIDE TO SOLARIS discusses the Solaris 2 distributed computing environment and how to customize it to the user's tastes. Begin with a brief tour of Solaris, from the SunOS operating system to the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface. Explore the functions of the fifteen DeskSet tools and learn how to change the default settings to your liking. Includes more advanced chapters on working from the SunOS command line and the fundamentals of UNIX system administration. A perfect introduction to using the Solaris environment effectively!


Solaris System Administrator's Guide

Janice Winsor
288 pages; $29.95 US
ISBN 1-56276-080-7

This practical guide for system administrators at all levels of experience describes how to efficiently managing the Solaris 2 environment. Loaded with step-by-step examples and based on a trusty in-house reference manual that became an underground classic at Sun Microsystems, Inc., this task-oriented book gets you the information you need every time. Employing a quick-reference approach, the author presents the command sequence for each system administration task followed by supporting sample code. Topics covered include file systems, networking, printing, shells, and troubleshooting. Also includes a Quick Reference Card on the differences between SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2 (SunOS 5.x).

German (tewi-Verlag) and Japanese (Impress Corporation) editions are available.


Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide

Janice Winsor
477 pages; $29.95 US
ISBN 1-56276-131-5

This companion volume to the SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE covers more advanced Solaris 2 system administration tasks in the same practical, step-by-step, task-oriented style for which the first book was applauded. It is ideal for system administrators who are experienced with day-to-day system maintenance and who need to add system components, improve service access, or automate routine tasks. Topics covered include mail services, NIS+, automount services, Service Access Facility (SAF), application software, and shell programming.

A Japanese edition is available from ASCII Corporation.


These 3 SunSoft Press books are available:

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