[SunRescue] Completely useless book

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Along those lines, "Solaris Internals" from Sun Press is a *great* book
for sysadmins that have some working knowledge of kernels and general
internals, but who want specifics as to "How exactly does xxxx work.".

The book you speak of takes a great many examples and cues from the older
Sun Educational courses(SA-280 and SA-285).  285 covers sendmail a la
Sun...I never could understand why Sun would teach that.  Or why they
pushed NIS+ so hard in the days when NIS+ was a sure-fire way of
destroying your network(now it's only a 50/50 chance).

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Ed Mitchell (ed<-at->the7thbeer.com)
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:

> So I was in the local B&N the other day (there are actually 2 B&N 2 Borders,
> and a Half Price books in my town) and I saw what looked to be a potentially
> interesting book "Solaris Administration, a Beginners guide"
> 
> Now I've been administering Solaris for a while, but most of my admin skills
> are self taught so I figured "What the heck, I'm sure it coudltn hurt"
> 
> I was wrong.
> 
> This book is painfully bad. It isn't for beginners, or for dummies, it's for
> complete frikken morons. Not only that but there are several areas where it
> is just plain wrong.
> 
> The book shows all of it scripting examples in bash.
> 
> It supposedly has sections on mail setup and dns setup but doesnt include
> any useful configuration info or instructions but instead tells you how to
> use elm and netscape mail locally, and what the resolv.conf file is.
> 
> These are just a few of the many examples why you should not buy or
> recommend this book to anyone, even a total beginner. Just get Solaris 8 a
> complete reference (the only good recommendation this book makes)
> 
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
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