Mastering Tools, Taming Daemons: UNIX for the Wizard Apprentice

This book is for you if you can create directories, edit files, write a simple shell script, write a C program, or if you use UNIX and no longer get lost making your way through the system. The book’s broad and concise coverage of the UNIX system utilities, administration, software development, networking, and internal operation. The book will help you solve many problems writing shell scripts that solve data manipulation tasks; how to connect your UNIX workstation to a network; how to use UNIX utilities to find “lost” files; create user accounts; manage a network computer with NFS, NIS, and DNS; debug and monitor a network; efficiently develop software on UNIX systems; write a graphical program for the X Window System; and secure and monitor your UNIX system. Intended readers include programmers, system administrators, and hobbyists (particularly those trying to run Linux on their home computers).