My favorite is: Linux System Administration Handbook By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Trent Hein
It's green and has a bunch of cartoon animals on the front. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jason Tower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Linux/UNIX book recommendations needed 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 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
