topic Re: Book in Operating System - HP-UX

Book

Raja_2 — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:16:03 GMT

Hi all,

I want to buy some book about administration HP. I found this one :

HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

What do you think about my choosing ? Or could you recommend me some, from your point of view, better ?

Thanks for your reply

Radim

Re: Book

Ravi_8 — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:19:13 GMT

Hi,

HP-UX System Administration By Rafeeq Rehmann is the best book

Re: Book

Zeev Schultz — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:25:18 GMT

RTFM (man pages are the best)
Seriously,I'd go to docs.hp.com for HP specific
as well as I go to Linux-HOWTOs for Linux specific.
Books are 2 heavy to carry as well. :)

Zeev

Re: Book

Ken Hubnik_2 — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:26:33 GMT

HP Certified by Rafeeq Rehmann

Re: Book

Ricardo Bassoi — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:27:27 GMT

Hi Radim,

You can buy Hp-Ux System Administration:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0139055711/104-6488825-7989527?vi=glance

or for free:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90121/B2355-90121_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90121/00/00/8-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90121/00/00/8-toc.html&searchterms=System%7cAdministration%7cHp-Ux&queryid=20030217-064731

Regards,
Ricardo

Re: Book

Steve Steel — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:41:57 GMT

Hi

I bought
HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit
Marty Poniatowski

Found it to be a sound base.

The instant information CD you get is also a gold mine and ask lots of questions here

steve Steel

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
-- Woody Allen

Re: Book

harry d brown jr — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:45:13 GMT

HPux books can also be found here:

http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/subject.html#hp-ux

live free or die
harry

Re: Book

Kent Ostby — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:35:44 GMT

If you decide to buy the HP Certified book or the Poniatowski, and you dont mind buying a used version, check on Half.com.

There is a copy of the HP Certified book selling for $40 about $20 less then the discounted Amazon version.

And Poniatowski's books are 50% off out there.

Double check the revision that they are selling though as well.

Re: Book

Dave La Mar — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:15:48 GMT

Two books used extensively in our shop -
HP-UX 11.X System Administration
ISBN 0-13-012514-8 (Prentice Hall)

UNIX Shell Programming
ISBN 0-672-48448-X (Hayden Books UNIX System Library)

Regards,
dl

Re: Book

John Payne_2 — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:22:34 GMT

Another very good free source is the HPUX software recovery handbook at http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/iv/enterService.do?NODEID=English_SHW%3A%3ADE_SW_UX_swrec_EN_01_E%2FQ1

They are little 'white papers' on different areas of HPUX systems administration that HP engineers write and post. They are very good papers, and you will find them straightforward and easy to read.

Hope it helps

John

Re: Book

Giri Sekar. — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:26:03 GMT

Hi:

HP's documents in /usr/share/doc has very good documents and Postscripts that you can find. And always "man" is your best friend.

Thanks

Giri Sekar.

Re: Book

Raja_2 — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:49:32 GMT

Hi,

thanks to everyone to suggestion.

From my point of view, I need handbook. The book, where are commands with short explanation. It seems to me the best solution will be "HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition"

John : unfortunately your link doesn't work. Probably, I don't have permission to go to the link.

Radim

Re: Book

BFA6 — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:48:36 GMT

Hi,

As a good reference I tend to use Unix in a Nutshell - O'Reilly & Associates. As well as Essential System Administration (another O'Reilly one)

Regards,

Hilary

Re: Book

John Payne_2 — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:22:43 GMT

Oops. Sorry. You are using the 'other' ITRC. I am in North America. Try searching the ITRC for 'software recovery handbook' or look in the knowledge trees area of the ITRC. It is area. (I see it just below the link for the FAQ's.)

Just a note, HP decided to remove all the white papers out of /usr/share/doc in HPUX 11i. You have to either get them off of HPUX 11.0 machine or search docs.hp.com and cross your fingers. I personally downloaded the files for safekeeping to a local machine...

Hope it helps

John

Re: Book

John Meissner — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:11:14 GMT

If you are new to Unix I would recommend
"The Complete Idiot's Guid to Unix" by Wagner
This book is great because it's not dry and technical... it's technical... but very easy to read.

If you're experienced using unix I'd agree with some of the other choices others have mentioned above.