-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, RABNUD hath spake thusly: > Sheepishly I admit - I have taken a class in "Intro to Unix" - I can > grep, after a limited fashion, but as a user I''m still a newbie. But > lets not even talk about cron, at, cups, NICs etc.
Well, good documentation abounds... You say you've taken an intro to Unix class, so you've no doubt been exposed to a variety of topics, such as file manipulation commands (cp, mv, ln, etc.), one or more of the most common editors (vi, emacs, ed/ex/sed), and probably at least introduced to some of the more useful utilities (mail, grep, awk, script, etc.), right? So, what is it exactly that you want to learn NEXT? I think we can probably help you better if you give us an idea of what you're looking for... Remember, we were all newbies once. :) I can tell you how I got started with Linux. I was taking Unix System Administration at U-Mass Lowell. The instructor mentioned Linux and FreeBSD as free Unixes that we might be interested in investigating. So I admit I had a head start, in that I was already learning about how to administer Unix systems when I first began mucking with Linux. However, there were a lot of great resources, even back then. linuxdoc.org is your friend. :) look in the "Guides" section... therein you should find a few of the books that got me started, including Lars Werzenius's "Linux System Administrators' Guide," and "Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirsch, which you can also get in print by O'Reilly Associates, if you can find it... It may be out of print. These books are old, and you should be forewarned that some of the information there may be a little out of date. For the most part though, administering Unix-like systems, Linux included, hasn't really changed all that much on a fundamental level, in the 30 years it's been around. There are a few other guides there that you might find helpful, though I'm not familiar with any of the others. In print, you might also look for I'Reilly's "Running Linux" and/or "Linux Unleashed" which I think is a SAMS publication, but I'm not sure. These are both pretty good, though in areas where they are distribution-specific, they tend to cover Red Hat. Since it sounds like you're running Mandrake, you might instead look for a Mandrake-oriented book. I don't run Mandrake, and haven't been in the market for a Linux system admin type book for quite some time, so I can't really comment on what might be more appropriate in that regard. Hope that helps. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8aqAGdjdlQoHP510RAja9AJ9fCP+Yww3GLN3vJ6eFNZv02o94TQCeKRHt C4GlHBrxPQenmnZrifL6hpY= =hPLs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
