| Unix Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management attempts to make UNIX essential and network administrative topics more accessible to a wide audience, including both academic and professional users. The selected book title fully reflects this idea: to present UNIX administration in a comprehensive way and enable effective systems and network management based on the presented text.
To achieve this goal, the book gives equal weight to UNIX systems and network concepts and their practical implementations. During the many years that I have worked as a computer hardware designer and programmer, and most recently as a UNIX administrator, I have tackled many practical UNIX and network problems. Working for different employers, I faced real−life situations in an academic environment, in the financial industry and the retail industry, and on the Internet. At the same time, while teaching at New York University and Columbia University, I met many novices in this field and learned an optimal and quick way to teach UNIX administration. This accumulated knowledge and experience have helped me to select UNIX topics that are of the utmost relevance to successful administration, and those topics served as the basis for this book. Some additional UNIX topics, significant from a historical point of view, or necessary for an overall presentation of UNIX administration, are also included. In concert, they create a logical and comprehensive text, easy to read and follow. It is impossible to say that everything existing in the UNIX administration arena is covered here — it would be impossible to put it all in a single book. However, the principal and most important UNIX administrative topics that make a complete UNIX administration environment and a sufficient base for overall UNIX management are fully explored.
About the Author Dr. Bozidar Levi is an electronics engineer by education, a hardware designer and programmer by evocation, and an UNIX administration expert by profession. He received his education at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and was awarded B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and computer science. Dr. Levi joined Belgrade's Pupin Institute and had a successful career path from a junior associate to a top senior scientist, dealing with many challenging projects — mostly as a project leader. A majority of the devices and equipment he designed are still operational worldwide.
Dr. Levi has also fully exercised his educational mission: first by teaching at the University of Belgrade, and now at Columbia and New York University. His teaching has always been a rational balance between theory and practice, with strong emphasis on reallife problems. Many of his former students are employed as IT professionals in various industrial and non−industrial segments nationwide. UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management is an extended and updated version of his UNIX administration course syllabi, which are appreciated and highly rated by his students. The book merges the required theoretical background with the practical needs for a successful UNIX administration in almost any environment. |