System Administration Links
- Before we get down to business :-), you might want to explore
the lighter side of system administration
- What's it all about? Check out these
job descriptions for system administrators,
courtesy of
SAGE
- Resources for
Ultrix and DEC Unix,
SunOS and Solaris,
Irix,
NetBSD,
Linux,
BSDI
and (yes, as much as I hate to admit it :-),
Windows NT
-
UNIXguide.net
offers one-stop shopping for resources on
AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and DEC Unix,
including a
summary of differences between them from a system administrator's
viewpoint
-
In a similar vein, the
Rosetta Stone for Unix,
aka the Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator,
attempts to answer the question, "What do they call that in this
world?"
- Unix as we know it today depends on the culture of
open source software
- From the fine folks at
Walnut Creek CDROM,
this
system configuration description
shows a real-life example of an industrial-strength
server using an
open source
version of Unix
- The
GNU Project
home page, and the
Free Software Foundation
- The
Yggdrasil Linux Bible
includes HTML versions of many of the
GNU Info files
- Cameron Laird's
personal notes on system administration
include his
personal index to binary libraries for Unix
- Jinsong Hu's collection of
systems resources
for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Windows, OS2, Novell and Macintosh,
among others
- home pages for
USENIX,
SAGE,
UniForum and
SANS
-
Backup Central
offers information and discussion forums on backup
tools and techniques
- Some hints for the most important question of all:
what name space to use for your machines?
- SAGE's
Sysadmin Resource Center
- Stokely Consulting's
Unix Sysadm Resources
page
- The
Sys Admin TALK Forums
are just what they sound like :-) -- "a web forum to discuss
topics related to administering computers"
-
System Administration Resources
compiled by the Computer Science Division at Applied Research Laboratories
- Anthony Thyssen's
Tower of Computational Sorcery
contains a number of useful documents on
PostScript,
mail and sendmail,
Perl
and
X,
among other things
-
UnixWorld Online
-
SysAdmin
magazine
- The
Unix Guru Universe
- Some online courses in system administration:
- Reg Quinton's home page
contains a number of papers on system administration issues, including
a wonderful document on
the care and feeding of sendmail in general, and
using sendmail 8.8 to help stop spam
- Still on the subject of spam, here's some information about
what we're doing to fight spam
here at
Concordia
- RFCs from
ISI
or
OSU
- Some places to look up ethernet address block assignments:
- Some documentation for
Majordomo list owners
at Concordia
- Source code to examples from W. Richard Stevens'
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment,
among others
-
O'Reilly,
publisher of the "Nutshell Handbook" series, among other things
- The
Perl Language Home Page
- A primer on
programming with BSD sockets
- The
Unix Programming FAQ
- The
vi lovers' home page,
and the
vim FAQ
- Looking for a gift for a sysadmin? Try the
vi reference mug, from
geakcheat.com
(listed under "vi products", and no, I'm not making this up -- I
don't have that much imagination :-)
(Warning: first make sure the person you're buying
it for isn't an emacs user. :-)
- An explanation of the
hard disk limitations inherent in the PC BIOS
- The home page of the
Internet2 project,
and their October 1997
draft applications plan
- The
Ping o' Death page
-
Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site
-
Curt's High Speed Modem FAQ
- Richard Shuford's
Video Terminal Information archive is probably the ultimate online
reference for terminals and screen management; it also contains more
than anyone ever wanted to know about the
DEC VT100 and
Televideo terminal families
- W.C. Parke's collection of
Hewlett-Packard Laser and DeskJet Printer Escape Code Sequences,
aka HP PCL
- Computer
training courses
offered by
CRIM
- Version 1.1 of Anatoly Ivasyuk's
Unofficial Unix Administration Horror Story Summary
Last Update: 2002/02/20
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