4.4BSD is the final release of what may be one of the most
significant research projects in the history of computing. When Bell
Labs originally released UNIX source code to the R&D community,
brilliant researchers wrote their own software and added it to UNIX
in a spree of creative anarchy that hasn't been equalled since. The
Berkeley Software Distribution became the repository of much of that
work.This volume includes man pages for system administration
commands (section eight of the online reference manual), plus
supplementary documents useful to system administrators.These include
installation instructions for the 4.4BSD release (which are also
included with the 4.4BSD-Lite CD-ROM Companion), plus papers on many
system administration utilities and tasks. Some of these papers have
been superceded by in-depth books, but many of them remain the
definitive work on the topic, and all are of interest to serious UNIX
administrators."Sometimes, when I'm stuck with a problem, I still go
back to the original UNIX papers. They are terse, but often
incredibly precise. Sometimes, a careful re-reading reveals some
nuance that makes all the difference." --Tim O'Reilly
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