Useful references

Anderson, Paul, and Alastair Scobie, LCFG: The Next Generation, UKUUG Winter Conference, London, 2002.

Anderson, Paul, George Beckett, Kostas Kavoussanakis, Guillaume Mecheneau, and Peter Toft, Technologies for Large-Scale Configuration Management, Report D1.1, GridWeaver Project, 2003.

Anderson, Paul, George Beckett, Kostas Kavoussanakis, Guillaume Mecheneau, Jim Paterson, and Peter Toft, Experiences and Challenges of Large-Scale System Configuration, Report D2.1, GridWeaver Project, 2003.

Appleton, Brad, The ACME Project: Assembling Configuration Management Environments (for Software Development).

Abbey, Jonathan and Michael Mulvaney, Ganymede: An Extensible and Customizable Directory Management Framework, LISA '98, Boston, 1998.

Beck, Kent, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Anderson, Paul, Collected documents from the Configuration Workshop at LISA XVI, Philadelphia, 2002. Note: sort-of in a sequence after the Cfengine Workshop at LISA 2001, and the Large Scale System Configuration Workshop in Scotland, also in 2001.

Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. and Gerrit Blaauw, Computer Architecture : Concepts and Evolution, Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Burgess, Mark, Bibliography of system administration.

Burgess, Mark, "Computer immunology", October, 1998. See also: cfengine.

Burgess, Mark, " Principles of system administration ", Edition 2.1, 1998.

Bushnell, Thomas, BSG, and Karl Ramm, Anatomy of an Athena Workstation, LISA '98, Boston, 1998; a good retrospective on the Athena Project at MIT, from a sysadmin perspective.

Cockburn, Alistair, " Software Development as Community Poetry Writing: Cognitive, cultural, sociological, human aspects of software development", 1997.

Couch, Alva and Michael Gilfix, It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes, LISA '99, Seattle, 1999.

Dekorte, Steve, Prototype-based languages (chart).

Evard, R\'emy, An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration, LISA '97, San Diego, 1997.

Ensel, Christian and Alexander Keller, Managing Application Service Dependencies with XML and the Resource Description Framework, 7th International IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM 2001), May, 2001.

Finke, Jon, Automation of Site Configuration Management, LISA '97, San Diego, 1997. Finke has a whole slew of papers that tend to relate to work on SIMON.

Hall, Richard S., Dennis Heimbigner, and Alexander L. Wolf, Requirements for Software Deployment Languages and Schema, in System Configuration Management (SCM-8), Proceedings of the ECOOP'98, Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, July 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1439, Springer-Verlag. Much related stuff at the SERL web site at Colorado, too.

Holub, Allen, "Building user interfaces for object-oriented systems, Part 1: What is an object? The theory behind building object-oriented user interfaces".

Limoncelli, Thomas A., and Christine Hogan, The Practice of System and Network Administration, Addison Wesley, 2001.

Lockard, John and Jason Larke, Synctree for Single Point Installation, Upgrades, and OS Patches, LISA '98, Boston, 1998.

Logan Mark, Matthias Felleisen, and David Blank-Edelman, Environmental Acquisition in Network Management, pages 175-184, LISA 2002, Philadelphia, 2002.

Mayer, Alain, Application Aware Management of Internet Data Center Software, LISA '02, Philadelphia, 2002. Sort of ARK for really complicated Web applications.

Mickish, Andrew, ``A Comprehensive Approach to Log Files'', Sys Admin Magazine, August 1999, Volume 8, Number 8.

Murphy, Murph P, The Unix Guide to Defenestration, self-published (I think). (`defenestration' == `throwing something out the window'; an interesting spin on the IT world in general.)

Nemeth, Evi et al, Unix System Administration Handbook, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall PTR, 2001.

Patterson, D. A., A. Brown, P. Broadwell, G. Candea, M. Chen, J. Cutler, P. Enriquez, A. Fox, E. Kiciman, M. Merzbacher, D. Oppenheimer, N. Sastry, W. Tetzlaff, J. Traupman, and N. Treuhaft, Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies. UC Berkeley Computer Science Technical Report UCB//CSD-02-1175, March 15, 2002.

Pierce, Clinton, The Igor System Administration Tool, LISA '96. Run commands on many boxes from a central console.

Quinlan, Daniel (maintainer), Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

Python Snippet Support Team, no known valid URL, Python Snippets for OOP.

Ressman, David and John Vald\'es, Use of Cfengine for Automated, Multi-Platform Software and Patch Distribution, LISA 2000, New Orleans, 200.

Advanced Unix -- Scripts, Document UNIX 18, Information Technology, Rice University, 2000.

Savikko, Vespe, "Design Patterns in Python", Proceedings of the 6th International Python Conference, 1997.

da Silva, Fabio Q. B., Juliana Silva da Cunha, Danielle M. Franklin, Luciana S. Varejão and Rosalie Belian, An NFS Configuration Management System and its Underlying Object-Oriented Model, LISA '98, Boston, 1998.

The SysAdmin Group, SA-BOK:, The Systems Administration Body of Knowledge.

Stepleton, Thomas, Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System, LISA '02, Philadelphia, 2002.

Traugott, Steve and Joel Huddleston, "Bootstrapping an Infrastructure", Originally published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth USENIX Systems Administration (LISA) Conference , Boston, Massachusetts, 1998.

Wadler, Phil, "XML: Some hyperlinks minus the hype".

Venkatakrishnan, V. N., R. Sekar, T. Kamat, S. Tsipa, and Z. Liang, An Approach for Secure Software Installation, LISA '02, Philadelphia. Use system call tracing (strace,truss) to determine a `policy' about installing some package, then use that policy (again tracing...) when doing it for real.

??? "XML in 10 points".