O'REILLY ANNOUNCES TWO MAJOR ADDITIONS TO ITS UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S
LIBRARY

October 1, 1992 -- SEBASTOPOL, CA -- Culminating six years of development,
O"Reilly & Associates announces the release of two new volumes in its UNIX
system administration series. With the publication of the TCP/IP NETWORK
ADMINISTRATION and DNS AND BIND in August and October, respectively,
O"Reilly has published the most complete documentation available on all
aspects of UNIX system administration.

"Most publishers have tried to cover UNIX system administration in a single
volumen" said Tim O'Reilly, president and managing editor of O'Reilly &
Associates. "No matter how large and comprehensive, a single book can't do
justice to the complexity of the topic. The system administration tools
being described are updated frequently and one or more portions are always
out of date."

"In keeping with our focussed Nutshell Handbook philosophy, we've written
individual books on each major program. This allows us not only to treat
each subject in depth, but also to keep the books current."

Craig Hunt, leader of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's
Networking Engineering Group, is author of the 502-page TCP/IP NETWORK
ADMINISTRATION ($29.95). He has written a complete guide to setting up and
running a TCP/IP network for practicing system administrators of networks
of systems or lone home systems that access the Internet. After an
introduction to how the network works, he discusses the important tasks of
planning a network; configuring systems for networking; and setting up
routing and name service. Hunt also discusses how to configure important
applications including sendmail, anonymous FT, and the R* commands, as
well as basic troubleshooting and security.

DNS AND BIND ($27.95), by Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz, is a complete guide
to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) and the Berkeley Internet Name
Domain (BIND) software, which is the UNIX implementation of DNS. In
addition to covering the basic motivation behind DNS and how to set upt
the BIND software, DNS AND BIND presents how to become a "parent" (i.e.,
delegate the ability to assign names to someone else); how to use DNS to
set up mail forwarding correctly; debugging and trouble-shooting; and
programming.

INDIVIDUAL BOOKS ON EACH MAJOR PROGRAM

These two new volumes join six previously-published O'Reilly system
administration guides. They include:

* ESSENTIAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ($29.95), by AEleen Frisch, is the basic
introduction to the entire series. It covers the basic tasks faced by
anyone responsible for a UNIX system;

* SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TUNING ($24.95), by Mike Loukides, explains how to get
more work out of a system without buying more hardware.

* MANAGING NFS AND NIS ($27.95), by Hal Stern, describes the two tools that
are absolutely essential to distributed computing environment. It provides
a comprehensive discussion of how to plan, set up, and debug an NFS
network and how to set up and use NIS to simplify network management.

* PRACTICAL UNIX SECURITY ($29.95), by Simon Garfinkel and Gene Spafford,
presents UNIX security basics and network security, from keeping intruders
out to prosecurint those who attempt to break in;

* MANAGING UUCP AND USENET ($27.95), by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino, now
in its tenth edition, is for system administrators who want to install and
manage UUCP (one of the most difficult UNIX utilities to master) and
Usenet software;

* TERMCAP & TERMINFO ($21.95), by John Strang, Linda Mui, and Tim O'Reilly,
describes the features of hundreds of terminals, together with a library
of routines that allow programs to use those capabilities.

FIRST ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO X WINDOWS

In October, O'Reilly will also publish the first and only book devoted to
the issues of system administration for X and X-based networks. The X
WINDOW SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE ($26.95; $49.95 with XCD-ROM), by
Linda Mui and Eric Pearce, is written not just for UNIX system
administrators but for anyone faced with the job of administrating X,
including those running X on stand-alone workstations. It presents
information on obtaining, compiling, and installing X software; setting up
xdm, the X display manager, and user accounts; making X more secure;
running X on heterogeneous networks, and more. It also includes X11
sources on a CD-ROM.

O'Reilly & Associates is the leading publisher of books and journals for
UNIX and X environments. Working closely with the developers of new
technologies, O'Reilly's editors are "computer people" who use the
software they write about -- testing the examples, and even rooting around
in the source code. Still to come in the series are books on sendmail, due
for publication in winter 1993.

O'Reilly & Associates Inc
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