Supplemental Readings

This is a collection of documents that supplement the information in the texts. Those things that are available online will have references (if you know of any I missed, let me know).

• Sysgroup Handbook By Trent, et. al. (34pp)
• What do System Administrators Really Do? Rob Kolstad (4pp)
• 1992 LISA Time Expenditure Survey Rob Kolstad (3pp)
• What Does It Take to be a System Administrator? (1p)
• Top 10 Tasks for a new Site Admin (1p)
• Simmons' Laws of System Administration Steve Simmons (1p)
• System Administration Tools Your Vendor Never Told You About: The Logbook Steve Simmons (1)
• Communication: An Important Aspect of UNIX System Administration Bjorn Satdeva (4)
• The Internet Worm Program: An Analysis Gene Spafford (40pp)
• Coping with the Threat of Computer Security Incidents A Primer from Prevention through Recovery Russel Brand (45pp)
• Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into It Dan Farmer, Wietse Venema (18pp)
• Improving the Security of You UNIX System David Curry (55pp)