The authors assume that you have a certain amount of UNIX experience, in particular, a general concept of how UNIX looks and feels from a user's perspective. From their own practical experiences the authors give you an overview of the major administrative systems, introduce general administrative techniques, help you choose solutions that will continue to work well as your site grows in size and complexity, summarize common procedures saving you the time of digging through the manuals to accomplish simple tasks. This book is designed to be a compliment to, not a replacement for your system's documentation. Encompassing everything from adding new users, troubleshooting, adding hardware, configuring the Kernel, communications/networking, the Internet, policy and politics. A most complete UNIX system administration book.