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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix Systems Administration Texts
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:24:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230301032423.GG15064@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W7KUYn2Z1jESPGK=qU5ysF3jmJk5R+D_s03njjFshi--w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:34:33PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 8:38???PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious about the experience of those of y'all who actually used them. Were there any early standouts and why did they stand out?
> 
> This is not going to be popular, but...
> 
> > Nemeth, E., Synder, G., & Seebass, S. (1989). UNIX System Administration Handbook (5th edition is another fatty)
> 
> This book gave me some terrible advice when I was very young and impressionable.

Yet another reason I'm not a Evi Nemeth fan.  I could go on but I won't.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-01  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-01  1:38 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-03-01  2:34 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-03-01  3:24   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-03-01  9:03   ` steve jenkin
2023-03-01 18:34   ` Pete Wright via TUHS
2023-03-01 22:57   ` Alan D. Salewski
2023-03-02  0:41     ` Adam Thornton
2023-03-02  2:02       ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2023-03-01  8:34 ` steve jenkin
2023-03-01 18:41   ` Warner Losh

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