Evi seems like overkill. By admin, are we really talking about admin, or just standard usage. Ritchie’s install guide and a book like Bourne’s Unix System (my personal favorite) book, or even one of the Kochan books might serve. I know Bourne and Kochan’s books are for later systems, but the bulk of them still apply. The Lion book is a great recommendation.

Will

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On Oct 29, 2021, at 8:41 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

much of what Evi says from an administrator standpoint will apply.  That said if you are running V6 get a copy of the Lion's text.  


For real synthesis, maje sure your copy is an nth generation xerographic copy😅.  Seriously go to Amazon and get the modern reprint.  

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:02 AM Paul Riley <paul@rileyriot.com> wrote:
And, as a matter of interest, is there a book for V6?

Paul

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 06:28, Scot Jenkins <sj@sdf.org> wrote:
joseph turco <italian.pepe.32@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if there exists a book on Unix administration, specifically
> for v7. I have the Unix programmers book already.

Introducing the UNIX System, (c) 1983, ISBN 0-07-045001-3
by Henry McGilton and Rachel Morgan

The book covers V7 and is a general intro to UNIX.
It has one chapter on administration near the end
of the book.  It covers very basic stuff:

* setting the date
* startup/shutdown
* users and groups, su command
* file systems (mkfs, mount, umount, fsck, icheck, ncheck)
* adding devices (mknod)
* dump, restor, tar

Overall though this is still a great book on UNIX in general,
even today.  Great tutorials on ed, sed, ex, vi, nroff/troff,
and ms macros make it worthwhile to own.

scot
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