12-19-2003
Read this if you are serious about being a Unix Admin...
Okay someone posted this as a response to a newbie question about books and resources and the ever popular "What should I read to be a good unix admin " newbie question...
I feel this should be a sticky, because after having read a good portion of it since yesterday, I noticed the bibliography...WOW!!!
There are well over 100 book references there... I would buy them all if I could...
Please read this if you are serious about becoming a great UNIX/Linux SA and programmer.
The Art of Unix Programming
Here is the bibliography link that is in the above link as well...
Bibliography
EDIT, 03/24/05:
I found one more great site I had forgotten about till a few weeks ago. It shows the utterly complete history of every known UNIX flavor, a family tree, if you will...
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
ENJOY!!!
Last edited by Kelam_Magnus; 03-24-2005 at 11:31 PM..
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URL(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual URL(4)
NAME
url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver
SYNOPSIS
url* at uhub?
urlphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip.
The url driver supports the following adapters:
CompUSA USBKR100
GreenHouse GH-USB100B
Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
Sitecom LN013
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
DIAGNOSTICS
url%d: watchdog timeout A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the
transmission before a timeout expired.
url%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.
AUTHORS
The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>.
BSD
September 18, 2006 BSD