[PDF] Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Book Description:
Typically we treat Apress /No Starch press and especially O’Reilly books (with those blackwhite animals on cover) as the highest authority in IT. We naturally anticipate that those books are written by hard-core professional that can mentor of all. Well, that’s not the case with Juliet Kemp book “Linux system administration recipes” – the whole book has the “unwritten concept” – “Hey, check this out!” . That means that it needs to be considered as a sort of article in Linux magazine that covers some Linux/sysadmin concepts that got Julie Kemp mesmerized, but not the solid reference material.For example, page. 188ldapsearch “(uuid=testuser)” | sed ‘/^#/d’ | sed ‘/^$/d’ – well , that works but any decent experienced sysadmin will tell you that it is not cool to pipe sed to sed, Instead you use ‘-e’ command – ldapsearch “(uuid=testuser)” | sed -e ‘/^#/d’ -e ‘/^$/d’ – that is much nicer. I am not splitting a hair here, but IMHO books like this need to have more elegance.Also the whole idea of centralization using LDAP /NFS / puppet is not clearly illustrated in this book – a few Visio / Omnigraph diagrams will be a HUGE help to understand the entire concept and to see whether it can be applied to your network. I am reading between the lines that Juliet Kemp has discovered LDAP /NFS /puppet / bash completion / perl -and she is trying to tell us “See, what I am using… isn’t it cool or what?”We need less “discovery channel”, but more analysis here. I am not telling you that the book is useless – it has some nice ideas, but the 2nd edition (if Juliet Kemp cares) need to be seriously revised

Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach Book

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Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Author(s): Juliet Kemp

Series: Expert’s Voice in Linux

Publisher: Apress, Year: 2009

ISBN: 1430224495

Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach PDF