Other Online Sources of Unix
Information
- There are a large number of good web tutorials on Unix around; here
are a few links valid as of this writing:
- In the unlikely event that you need to lookup something possibly non-standard
about the specific flavor of Unix we run here on campus, Sun Microsystems
(the vendor for Solaris, the [very standard] Unix that runs here on sun
and mercury, among other machines) has a nice set of
online documentation for all their OS versions; check with campus IT for
the current version on the machine you want information on. Note that the
web site is from Sun, the vendor — IT's local installation and
necessary customizations render some of that material inapplicable to our
specific installation.
- There is an entire hierarchy of comp.unix.* newsgroups
available on the Usenet.
There is also a Unix Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list posted routinely
to comp.answers, another Usenet newsgroup. The FAQ includes some low
level wizardry, in fact. (Real wizardry, by definition, is never published
anywhere; only handed down mythically from wizard to wizard. ;-) As
a computer professional, you should start checking comp.answers routinely
anyway. All sorts of good stuff gets posted there. In fact, you
should make yourself familiar with the entire comp.* hierarchy, an invaluable
source of professional information.