I'm sure many of you rely on your "Tru64 UNIX System Administrator's Guide"
(the 2nd edition of the Cheek et. al. opus) for support in your day to day
work.
Now there's a complementary "Tru64 UNIX Troubleshooting -- Diagnosing and
Correcting System Problems" that's just been put together by Martin Moore
and Steven Hancock, published by Digital Press (part of Elsevier Science).
Where the first book helps tell you what to do when things are going as
they should, the new book tells you what to do when the procedures that
usually work don't and things are going poorly.
The authors have many years of experience in providing support to many of
you, and have focused on areas where they've had to help people resolve
problems, both the obvious and the not so obvious. A lot of what they've
put in the book focuses as much on techniques for problem solving as on
the solutions, and in some cases what they help you understand is when to
call in the "big guns" and call HP support.
I've read the galley proofs, although I don't have a personal copy yet;
I understand it's orderable now as ISBN 1-55558-274-5. Should cost you
under $35 from Amazon or the like, and would be a nice present to have
under the tree if you celebrate Christmas that way. It's orderable now
although I don't know when it will get delivered.
As with the earlier work, I think this one is a keeper for those of us
who deal with these systems, and I endorse it.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn + Tru64 UNIX Software + Hewlett-Packard Company
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Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
Keep your stick on the ice. -- Steve Smith ("Red Green")
My favorite palindrome is: Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
-- Phil Agre, pagre_at_alpha.oac.ucla.edu
Yesterday it worked / Today it is not working / UNIX is like that
-- apologies to Margaret Segall
Opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not necessarily represent
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Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 21:12:25 NZDT