Newbie in Solaris

hye all .. i'm new with this new solaris server . is there any specific language i need to master in order for me to operate the server . my company is using solaris 9 platform . if there is any god book for me to read please do suggest .. thanks all

i take it you mean something from: perl, c, c++, shell programming, etc? that is somewhat dependant in my view on what you want to master with the os. do you want to be able to manage users, security, applications, develop products, etc? quite a few tasks you may want to learn or need to understand do not require mastering much outside of command line syntax. others it would be helpful to understand shell programming (like reading some service startup scripts and understanding whats going on).
[docs.sun.com]
has lots of info. amazon has quite a few books on solaris, and there are many sites and books on perl/c/c++/etc...

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