UNIX System Administration Handbook CD-ROM Harvested in October, 1997 This CD-ROM is a companion to the second edition of the UNIX System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein (published by Prentice Hall). It contains a variety of freely-available software, tools, standards, and examples. Many of these packages are referred to in the book, but others have been included for your use and convenience as a system administrator. The CD-ROM is written in the ISO-9660 format and can be mounted on all six of the example systems we use throughout the book: Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, SunOS, OSF/1, and BSDI. The software has been harvested from a variety of sources, including the Internet, Usenet news archives, and our own labs. We have not tested each package on all six of the example systems, and we make no warranties whatsoever as to the usability, fitness for a particular purpose, or integrity of the packages contained on this CD-ROM. Compile, install, and use the packages on this CD-ROM at your own risk (i.e., don't mail us if it doesn't work in your particular environment, or if it doesn't work at all). In an effort to maximize the usefulness of the software contained here, many of the packages have been pruned to contain only the most recent version, or in some cases, pruned to only the most essential files. Wherever possible, pertinent documentation is included with the package. To help you locate useful tools, the "index" directory contains an annotated description for each of the major packages. Despite the disclaimers above, there *is* a wealth of fantastic system administration software (and many other UNIX tools) on this disk. We encourage you to explore the disk and adapt the software to your environment. You can mail comments about the CD-ROM to sa-cdrom@cs.colorado.edu. A million thanks to Jim Lane for assembling the contents and index of this CD-ROM. Happy Administrating! Evi Nemeth Garth Snyder Scott Seebass Trent R. Hein