| www.usenix.org/sage/ | SAGE: the System Administrators Guild is a Special Technical Group of
the USENIX Association. This is the key professional society for system
administration in general, with a bit of a Unix bias. Sponsors the annual LISA
conference. Membership includes a subscription to the journal
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The SAGE Job Descriptions are a de facto standard for distinguishing between the duties of Novice, Junior, Intermediate/Advanced, and Senior system administrators. SAGE has recently developed a certification program. |
| http://www.uuasc.org/ | UUASC: the Unix Users Association of Southern California has monthly meetings in El Segundo (first Thursdays) and in Irvine (second Mondays). It is a great place to pick up diverse knowledge and network with other sys admins. No dues; all are welcome! |
| http://www.acm.org/ | Association for Computing Machinery. There is a Los Angeles chapter and a student chapter at Loyola Marymount. |
| http://www.computer.org/ | IEEE Computer Society. There is a Los Angeles Council. |
| www.sun.com/bigadmin | Sun's system administration portal |
| www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources | Celeste Stokely's reference site |
| unix.about.com/library/weekly/aa030501a.htm | A brief overview of skill areas and links |
| www.ugu.com | Unix Guru Universe |
| bhami.com/rosetta.html | Bruce Hamilton's table of commands for different Unix flavors, grouped by function. |
| Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein, Unix System Administration Handbook (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall, August 2000. | "The Bible". Covers Solaris 7, HP-UX 11.00, Red Hat Linux 6.2, and FreeBSD 3.4 |
| Nemeth, Snyder, and Hein, Linux Administration Handbook. Prentice Hall, March 2002. | Linux-specific version of the above. Covers Red Hat 7.2, SuSE 7.3, Debian 3.0. |
| Craig Hunt, TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd ed.). O'Reilly, April 2002. | |
| Aeleen Frisch, Essential System Administration (3rd ed.). O'Reilly, 15 August 2002 | |
| O'Reilly and Prentice-Hall generally publish the most titles of interest to Unix system administrators. |
| www.sysadminmag.com | Sys Admin: the journal for Unix system administrators |