the books from red hat press are very good, particularly "networking and system administation". they are biased towards RH of course, but excellent texts nevertheless.
i'd also suggest a good book on [bash|shell] scripting, which is important on all *nixes. o'reilly is probably the best bet. jason On Thursday 10 July 2003 14:17, Greg Brown wrote: > A good friend of mine landed a job down in CLT and he has to learn > about system administration of all things command line. Not only does > he need to know administration he needs to learn about the general > workings and operations of: > > UNIX (AIX, Solaris, and maybe HP-UX) > Linux (not sure which distro, probably RH) > BSD (unsure of which distro, probably FreeBSD) > > (I've already told him to get on the list, get some extra hardware > thrown together, and install the some distros). > > Marty, the friend who landed the job, already has a strong background > in MS systems as well as routed networks from the very tiny to the > very, very large. He's smarter than the average bear so he's able to > pick things up fairly quickly, but the books still have to cover the > basics then hopefully progress to more difficult topics. That said, > what books do you recommend? > > I was thinking of Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch > would be a good one. > > What are the other good ones? > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
