Selected Papers in Network and System Administration

The emergence of network and System Administration, during the latter quarter century, as a discipline of science and engineering, has culminated in a number of paradigms for managing networks of collaborating machines. These include automatic regulation, policy based management, computer immunology, quality control procedures and even the psychology of the user--system interaction. Techniques based on scripting, declarative languages, empirical measurements, and theoretical models, spanning psychology to game theory have been developed. In this volume, key contributions to the discipline are presented through the words of the authors who contributed them. The forum for this thread of ideas has been the USENIX Associationa s LISA conferences, originally the "Large System Administration" conference. These conferences have played, and continue to play, a unique role in cementing a relationship between researchers and working network and system administrators. Computer scientists,engineers, system administrators and students will each find something of permanent value here. No matter what developments the future brings, these words represent important conceptual foundations of the field. These papers are reprinted here for the first time in a convenient form, along with a commentary reflecting on their significance within the discipline as a whole.

ISBN 0470843853   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780470843857 (What's this?)   Pages 520 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1246 Format Hardback   Published in Chichester Publication date 21 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 248 Non-book description xlviii, 472 p. :   Width (mm) 194 Library of Congress 2002282200   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 004.6   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction
		Chronology
		Sub-cultures of System Administration
		Trust and Delegation
		Key to Selected Papers
		About the Editors
		References
		Permissions and Acknowledgements
1		A Case Study of Network Management by M. K. Fenlon		1
2		Balancing Security and Convenience by V. Jones and D. Schrodel		3
3		Creating an Environment for Novice Users by J. M. Smith		5
4		Priv: An Exercise in Administrative Expansion by E. Heilman		6
5		Experiences with Viruses on UNIX Systems by T. Duff		8
6		Site: A Language and System for Configuring Many Computers as One Computing Site by B. Hagemark and K. Zadeck		17
7		Tools for System Administration in a Heterogeneous Environment by R. Finkel and B. Sturgill		30
8		Disk Space Management Without Quotas by E. D. Zwicky		45
9		spy: A Unix File System Security Monitor by B. Spence		48
10		Uniqname Overview by W. A. Doster and Y.-H. Leong and S. J. Mattson		61
11		The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries by K. Manheimer and B. A. Warsaw and S. N. Clark		69
12		Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks by D. Libes		79
13		Policy as a System Administration Tool by E. D. Zwicky and S. Simmons and R. Dalton		87
14		Managing Program Binaries in a Heterogeneous UNIX Network by P. Anderson		96
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