Books featuring cfengine A new book about cfengine will shortly be available from USENIX. Keep watching! Aeleen Frisch, Essential System Administration (3rd edition) This book will give you an introduction and some cfengine recipies, all mixed in with general good advice about Unix system administration. Kirk Bauer, Automating UNIX and Linux Administration This book will give you an introduction and some cfengine recipies, all mixed in with general good advice about Unix system administration. Mark Burgess, Principles of Network and System Administration. This book is for readers who are learning system administration as an engineering discipline and want to know how cfengine can fit into the big picture. It is a widely used textbook on system administration at universities around the world, also translated into Portugese. Mark Burgess, Analytical Network and System Administration This book is not for the faint hearted. If you want to understand the research behind cfengine, this is a book for you to study.