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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins (And everyone who wants to be one) Author: David Both
ISBN-10: 1484237293 Year: 2018
Website: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484237298
Price: 37,99 Euros
From the description: Reveals and illustrates the awesome power and flexibility of the command-line, and the design and usage philosophies that support those traits. This understanding of how to extract the most from the Linux command-line can help you become a better SysAdmin. Understand why many things in the Linux and Unix worlds are done as they are, and how to apply the Linux Philosophy to working as a SysAdmin.
This author is not afraid to drop a fork bomb on the unsuspecting public within the first few pages. There was a lot of blah-blah TL;DR in the beginning, but I suppose one has to go back and look at the title of the book, LINUX PHILOSOPHY. When I open a book like this, I hunger for knowledge. I cannot get to the 'meat and potatoes' quick enough. I am the happiest when I am learning something new, especially when there are real world things to do. This book slows the pace a bit, and I am reminded that not everyone starts at the same spot. Just like the Dr. Strange movie - the warnings come AFTER the code samples, so read carefully!
The book is like a river and one topic flows into the next. One can see a lot of thought went into writing this book. I cannot say I have come across David Both before, but he is most definitely going on my list of authors to look out for. I really enjoyed chapters like “logs are your friend”. Revisiting things like sar – that we forget about these days with monitoring dashboards, etc. Things seem to be mostly from a Red Hat based distribution point of view though, and I would have appreciated it from a Debian-based perspective too. I do not mean this in a bad way, just files like var/log/secure may have the newbie administrator fretting that he may have missed something. You and I may know to look in look in /var/log/auth.log , but since this book is aimed at newcomers and seasoned Administrators alike, I think it should have been mentioned in the same sentence.
The author also points to examples on the web, specifically howtoforge (brilliant website), and examples on github. Chapter 9 'Automate Everything' is my favourite chapter in the book. Clear explanations on quite a few topics, and alternatives to the same-old, same-old.
In the fourth part of the book, 'Becoming Zen', the author even touches on hardware (briefly). Throughout the book, 'cowsay' pops up to put a break in your pace, to remind you to rest your eyes and smell the roses.
This book is a treat of old and young alike. Get your copy now.
Four stars for a most enjoyable read.