Everything Sysadmin

Articles by Tom and Chris

Sample chapters from the book

• Appendix B: What to do when... (COMPLETE TEXT!)

Tom's Papers and Articles

Published in Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), Usenix, October 1997:

• "Creating a Network for Lucent Bell Labs Research South"
• "Turning the Corner: Upgrading Yourself from ``System Clerk'' to ``System Advocate''"

Published in Proceedings of the Second Usenix NT Systems Administration Conference (LISA-NT '98), August 1998:

• "Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server"

Published in Proceedings of the First Usenix Network Administration Conference (NETA '99), April 1999:

• "Tricks You Can Do If Your Firewall Is a Bridge"

Published in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '99), Usenix, November 1999:

• "Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model"
• "Adverse Termination Procedures"

Chris's Papers and Articles

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Published in Proceedings of the Ninth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '95), Usenix, October 1995:

• "Metrics for Management"
• "Decentralising Distributed Systems Administration"

Published in Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Usenix, October 1998:

• "Drinking from the Fire(walls) Hose: Another Approach to Very Large Mailing Lists". Primary author: Strata Rose Chalup

Published in Proceedings of the 3rd International SANE (System Administration and Networking) Conference (SANE 2002), May 2002:

• "Scheduled Maintenance Windows (what, why, and how)" (Postscript)