Time Management for System Administrators Thomas A. Limoncelli
Publisher: O'Reilly Media

While self-hosting offers dedicated server resources and lots of flexibility, there are some downsides: System administrator time is expensive. This post summarises and reviews the book "Time Management for System Administrators" (companion site: Everything Sysadmin) by Thomas A. Time Management for System Administrators looks like its going to break the cycle. LOPSA has named Time Management for System Administrators as their first ever “book of the month. He takes his time to present his time management technique and explain why and how it works. The proliferation of configuration management packages changes that. Tools, such as Puppet and Chef, make it easy for systems administrators to maintain multiple servers at one time and quickly upload information. System Administrators can reap great benefits by grabbing Thomas Limoncelli's Time Management for System Administrators , a work that is tailored specifically to SysAdmin's hectic life. What's the problem with self-hosting? LOPSA has named Time Management for System Administrators as their first ever "book of the month." I'm honored. Continue reading Execute commands on multiple hosts using expect tool Part III of this series. Read our book review of Time Management for System Administrators. I bought it yesterday at Digital Guru (their last copy) on my way to the colo in San Jose. O'Reilly just published Tom Limoncelli's new book on Time Management for System Administrators, which is kind of a simplified techie approach in the same vein as Getting Things Done. The other half of the book is spent imparting his wisdom from almost 25 years of system administration.