Mundane yet fun

Okay, I'll admit that the topic of debugging kernel panics is one that will give most sysadmins fits and put others to sleep. However, the ability to dig up just exactly what caused your kernel to panic is a skill that can be mastered with this book. The authors do an excellent job of explaining SPARC architecture in a non-engineer oriented way. I have found this book to be very helpful in my work. Please note that this book is specific to Sun Solaris only (I would like see a 2nd edition that covers everything up to Solaris 8).

Note, the iscda script provided in the cdrom does not work with Solaris 2.6 and up. You can get the updated version at: http://www.piaffe.org/panic/macros/iscda-2X

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