Mac OS X Books for Unix Admins?
ikioi asks: "There
seem to be plenty of books to help long time Macintosh users acclimate to
the new details of Aqua, but does anyone know of a good 'Mac OS X for
Unix-Heads' type book? I'd love to have one aimed at unix-admins. Maybe
something that talks about netinfo, boot up process/scripts, filesystem
details, Apple's GCC extensions, and so forth." For those
interested in OSX who may have missed it the first time around, Ask
Slashdot has handled a question on books about
programming
under OS X.
Fatbrain publishes Apple Mac OS X documentation, a couple of which are relevant to administration:
Mac OS X System OverviewOS X Server Administrator's Guide
There is also a document on understanding Netinfo and info on administrator training.
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There are few stones left unturned, including such important new concepts as the "superuser" account, the NetInfo Manager, and access rights and privileges.
I don't think that the story submitter is looking for a book that explains the concepts of "superuser". He probably wants a less bulky O'reilly-ish book that gets directly to the point and doesn't waste time with "Opt-Shift-Drag use preset icon sizes"
What I did when trying to find a decent OS X book was figure out an advanced topic (in my case mounting NFS file systems) and then find a book that provides the best detail on this. In my case it was Unleashed. Obviously picking a couple of things to sample may give better results.
Now if one of those books would tell me how to lower a window i'd be dancing.
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