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 includes: utilities, administration, software development, networking, and internal operation. The book will help you solve many problems in: 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).