The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition

Footnotes

Preface

¹ Throughout the book, we refer to the end users of our systems as customers rather than users. A detailed explanation of why we do this is in Section 31.1.2.

Chapter 2

¹ A cheap substitute is to have a checklist with detailed instructions, including exactly what options and preferences are to be set on various applications and so on. Alternatively, use a disk-cloning system.

Chapter 3

¹ “To err is human; to really screw up requires the root password.”—Anonymous

² Thus, an Intel Xeon running SUSE 10 and configured as a web server would be considered a different platform from one configured as a CAD workstation.

³ This is not to imply that automation removes the need for documentation.

⁴ SAs should note that this method relies ...