 | The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli
Buy new: $48.34 / Used from: $2.27 We all know HOW to do UNIX system administration, but this book explains the WHYs behind the HOWs.
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 | DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition by Paul Albitz
Buy new: $32.81 / Used from: $0.69 DNS is a harsh mistress, and it affects everything.
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 | Sendmail by Bryan Costales
Buy new: $37.96 / Used from: $0.01 The grand tome for internet mail voodoo. Hopefully a new version will be out soon.
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 | sendmail Desktop Reference by Bryan Costales
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 ...and it's mini desktop companion.
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 | Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern
Buy new: $34.78 / Used from: $6.96 NFS and NIS are nasty and ugly, but when you need to tame them, this is a good book.
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 | TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt
Buy used from: $0.01 A good introduction to TCP/IP for the sysadmin.
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 | TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
Buy new: $51.60 / Used from: $18.85 The TCP/IP bible, by Stevens
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 | TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation by Gary R. Wright
Buy new: $54.18 / Used from: $19.44 More in depth information about the TCP protocol by Stevens
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 | TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
Buy new: $56.96 / Used from: $7.98 And the third volume in the set, for describing specific TCP applications
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 | UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) by Evi Nemeth
Buy new: $61.41 / Used from: $16.74 A good general reference, the one I cut my little sysadmin teeth on (Edition 1)
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 | UNIX Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston
Buy used from: $0.81 Once you have data, you'd better be backing it up.
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 | Programming Perl (3rd Edition) by Larry Wall
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $8.48 Hey, everyone's doing it! You may as well know perl.
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 | UNIX Shell Programming, Revised Edition by Stephen G. Kochan
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $0.01 And you better know shell programming since that's most likely what your system uses for init scripts.
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 | sed & awk (2nd Edition) by Arnold Robbins
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $8.32 If you're programming shell, sed and awk are invaluable.
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 | Exploring Expect (Nutshell Handbooks) by Don Libes
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $6.37 Expect is a very handy automation tool.
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 | Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition) by Elizabeth D. Zwicky
Buy new: $50.59 / Used from: $0.86 Firewalls are an important part of internet security.
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 | Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling The Wily Hacker (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing) by William R. Cheswick
Buy used from: $0.01 Another excellent security/firewall book.
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 | SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide by Daniel J. Barrett
Buy used from: $0.30 If you don't already know it and love it, ssh will be your next best friend.
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 | Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition) by Linda Lamb
Buy used from: $0.50 You may love emacs, but when it hits the fan, you better know vi.
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 | System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly System Administration) by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $5.24 Every sysadmin needs to know the fundamentals of performance tuning.
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 | The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick
Buy new: $50.80 / Used from: $8.89 A must have to understand the BSD internals (well, unless you want to read through all of the source)
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 | C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy new: $46.42 / Used from: $18.46 The C bible
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 | Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy new: $40.50 / Used from: $4.96 How to program for UNIX (and it even has a chapter on ed!)
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