Much more than a nuts and bolts how to book. Jeff does a fantastic job of helping the reader to understand the practicality of real life day to day UNIX system administration.Jeff goes beyond the typical cookbook approach to systems management books and breaths life into the roles and tasks of a system administrator. If there truly was a UNIX administrators guild Jeff would be burned at the stake for revealing its inner most secrets. This book serves not only as a how to and a reference manual but also provides anecdotal and informative real world stories from Jeff's vast store of experience.