[plug] [ot] Solaris 2.5 training and sparc hire

[Steve Grasso]

Hi Mike,

> Does anyone know of Solaris 2.51 admin courses? Sun sell some very
> expensive CD-based courses.

Nope. Except through Sun registered trainers, costing ca. $5,000 when I last
looked.

>    Or more likely, what books, third party CD, or web-based instruction
> can be recommended?

Some online Solaris stuff I've found useful (not specifically 2.51 though):

Solaris AnswerBook2:    http://www.unixlab.virginia.edu:8888/
Online Solaris man pages etc:    http://www.solarisguide.com/rtfm.shtml
General Solaris security (with 2.6 focus):  
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~whitej4/secureSolaris2.6.html

>    I havn't used that OS for a long time (has anyone?) but most of what
> they need to know would be standard Unix skills. 

Mostly. Solaris is System V Release 4 based, and is therefore I think more
similar to Linux than the BSD's generally. I've not found any great difficulty
moving between Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD, other than the occasional "DOH"
when I hit subtle command-switch differences, or forget where such-and-such
lives in the whatever file system tree. Christian may have an opinion here,
since he uses multiple Unices.

>   Also, does anyone have an old sparc I could hire for a week or two
> please. Latest technology definitely not needed here :-) .

I wish.

CU
Steve