in reply to (OT) Retraining on Solaris

The book you mention is a good one, I've got a copy of it at home myself. I would also recommend the Sun courses:

UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-119)
Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-239)

You can get info on them from the http://suned.sun.com site. Also, you can download a home use copy of Solaris 9 to install on x86 (or Sparc if you have one at home).

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Re: Retraining on Solaris
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on May 25, 2004 at 12:59 UTC
    I've given the predecessors of the courses (SA-118, SA-238 for Solaris 8) and also the System Administration II several times. I'm not at all trilled about the course materials (for instance, when it introduces 'find' in the beginners course (on day 2, IIRC) it immediately discusses almost all its options as well).

    I've once given a Solaris course using materials from HP education (and hence the material was about HP-UX), and I vastly prefer that material over the material supplied by SUN education - even for a Solaris course.

    Unfortunally, I don't have an answer what a good book for Solaris is. Except for the course materials, I don't know any. I love Solaris, did lots of adminning on it, but I just grew into it.

    Abigail

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      Hmm, maybe it was because when I took the course, I had been using Unix for quite a while (variety of flavours) and been using Solaris as well for a while as well.
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        Or maybe you had a good trainer. It's certainly not impossible to give a good course - the material is just a bad child of a learning and a reference book, resulting in something that isn't good in either. And the material is far better that the horrible Perl courses they came up with (but not as bad as the Perl material from HP education - with that material you can play the game "open a page, try to find anything on the page that is actually correct" - a surprisingly difficult game). But I disgress.

        Abigail

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