Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:33:42AM +0200, Yehuda Drori wrote: I would also recommend the old and basic guides: ... The Linux Network Administrators' Guide Version: 1.0 Author(s): Olaf Kirch This book has a newer 2nd edition. I believe you didn't mention it either because you were not aware of that fact or that you haven't read it. Or is there a more subtle reason? -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Administration Bible recommendations
Hi, A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. Assuming responses like Why does he need a book at all? are redirected to /dev/null, can anyone recommend anything generic enough and comprehensive enough? Updated and correct to a reasonable degree... It's OK if it is specific to a major distro. If it isn't - so much the better. If there are none - it's a good answer as well. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
Hello! In my early days (circa 1998-9) I made heavy use of the following kilobook library: * Using Linux - Tackett Gunter, Que ... Not bad in its time * Open Linux: Complete Reference - Peteren, Osborne ... Easier to use than Tackett, but not as extensive * Redhat Linux Unleashed - Pitts Ball, Sams ... I was a Redhat user then and it did help * Linux Network Toolkit - Sery, IDG ... So, so but useful for waht I needed at the time * Using Samba - Sharpe, Que ... Intermediate. Got it at half price from Bug during their English book liquidation sale. and of course, *Linux Complete and Unix Complete, both Sybex and dirt cheap. All of this stuff is completely outdated vis-a-vis desktop configuration, but for command line stuff they are still useful. Each of the above items has strengths and weaknesses (which is why I used several of them). The Sery book was useful in setting up my little office network, but it's now way out of date. (I use the SWAT GUI to maintain Samba, and it has almost nothing useful on Apache, with which I'm pottering around at the moment.) For NFS, you don't need a book. You can of course get NAG and SAG online (they comes with the SuSE distribution). Over the years I added a few Riley books on specific subjects (a matter of taste and direction). Any further comment on this matter is dependent on what your friend wants to do with his system. (My own library is heavily slanted towards user-land programming [C/C++/Java] which may not be relevant to you.) Another thing: Get your friend to use man or info or whatever catches his fancy. Whenever I use a man page a lot, I print it out and put it in a binder. After several years of this, I have a homemade book which matches my own requirements.(I haven't succeded in doing that with info.) To get him started, pick out a list of commonly needed things and waste some paper. Here are some of mine: depmod/insmod, fstab, ftp,lilo (or grub), ln, moddeprobe, module.conf, mount/umount, proc, ps, rm, swat, tar For a real beginner, you add such things at cat, cp etc. Regards, Daniel Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. Assuming responses like Why does he need a book at all? are redirected to /dev/null, can anyone recommend anything generic enough and comprehensive enough? Updated and correct to a reasonable degree... It's OK if it is specific to a major distro. If it isn't - so much the better. If there are none - it's a good answer as well. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. Assuming responses like Why does he need a book at all? are redirected to /dev/null, can anyone recommend anything generic enough and comprehensive enough? Updated and correct to a reasonable degree... It's OK if it is specific to a major distro. If it isn't - so much the better. If there are none - it's a good answer as well. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know whether it will suits your friend needs. Yet the Lip's NAG can be read online and for free so that your friend can decides by himself. By the way, does anyone here is/was subscribed to O'reilly online library (Safary I believe)? -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí ùéùé 14 ôáøåàø 2003, 10:31, Oleg Goldshmidt ëúá: Hi, A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. Assuming responses like Why does he need a book at all? are redirected to /dev/null, can anyone recommend anything generic enough and comprehensive enough? Updated and correct to a reasonable degree... It's OK if it is specific to a major distro. If it isn't - so much the better. If there are none - it's a good answer as well. Hi Oleg 1. Securing and Optimizing LINUX The Hacking Solution /Gerhrd Mourani (www.openna.com). 2. Red Hat Linux Networking and system administration / Terry Collings and Kurt Wall / redhat PRESS 3. Red Hat Linux security and optimization / Mohammed J. Kabir /redhat PRESS Doron -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TNaRUa4lXxqoBCERAtt8AJ45hj8qiwLWzaH8fa7TsWKX4JFN/QCdGuhk EzXFJV4H99W+KCRt7fMHSQs= =LbPT -END PGP SIGNATURE- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
Hi, I'd recommend the following book: Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide - Steve Shah This book, albeit older is quite good as a starting point for administration. It also touches the usage of the CLI and it covers some very basic administration functions. It even shows how to incorporate your linux server into a windows workgroup. The only problem with it is that it covers RH 6.1 and many things have changed since then... Eli On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:31:42 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. Assuming responses like Why does he need a book at all? are redirected to /dev/null, can anyone recommend anything generic enough and comprehensive enough? Updated and correct to a reasonable degree... It's OK if it is specific to a major distro. If it isn't - so much the better. If there are none - it's a good answer as well. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. During one weekend of guard duty in the IDF, a long time ago, I read the Unix System Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth et al. My outlook on sysadmining has never been the same. Nowdays, they also have Linux Administration Handbook. Check out http://www.admin.com/. USAH is highly recommended, and I would assume so is LAH, by proxy. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Administration Bible recommendations
On Friday 14 February 2003 18:36, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for one or two comprehensive intermediate level (i.e. not for complete novices or idiots) reference books on Linux system and network administration, and though I am usually able to find the right FM for a question at hand, I found myself unable to recommend any single reference source in a form of a dead tree or parchment. During one weekend of guard duty in the IDF, a long time ago, I read the Unix System Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth et al. My outlook on sysadmining has never been the same. Nowdays, they also have Linux Administration Handbook. I sec. I used Unix System Administration Handbook 3rd edition two ( maybe 3 ) years ago when I was teaching as a Metargel at Michlelet Sapir. it's one of the most comprehensive and complete book to start from.. my best spent 373 Nis.. ;-) I would also recommend the old and basic guides: Installation and Getting Started Guide Author(s): Eric S. Raymond The Linux System Administrators' Guide Version: 0.6 Author(s): Lars Wirzenius The Linux Network Administrators' Guide Version: 1.0 Author(s): Olaf Kirch Check out http://www.admin.com/. USAH is highly recommended, and I would assume so is LAH, by proxy. -- -- Yehuda Drori http://whatsup.org.il your Linux spot on the web in HEBREW = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
