Ok all. After looking for a book that is structured from start to finish to give a good foundation I believe I have found 2 that work for me. Your mileage may vary.
The first is "The Definitive Guide to CentOS" by Peter Membrey, Tim Verhoeven and Ralph Angenendt. Apress ISBN-13 978-1-4302-1930-9 Part 1 starts off with Installation, Getting Started and then Using YUM. Part 2 is going into Production with setting up Apache Mail, DNS, DHCP SAMBA and VPNs. At this point I'm on Chapter 5 with setting up Apache Server. The instructions have been good and even though I have been using CentOS 6.2 while the book is for 5.5 it has been what I needed to figure things out. The next book is another Aperss book. "Foundations of CentOS Linux by Ryan Baclit, Chivas Sicam, Peter Membrey and John Newbigin. ISBN 978-1-4302-1964-4 This book seems to be almost classroom material. My original goal was to learn Linux from the ground up with the outcome being certification and having the skills to demonstrate to a potential employer. I'll let you know how this all works out. Thanks for your help and suggestions and hopefully this helps someone else who wants to follow this road. Ray On Sunday, August 25, 2013 3:59:45 PM UTC-5, Ray wrote: > > Thanks for all of the replies! > > I'll let you know what I find and what worked for me. > > > > On Saturday, August 10, 2013 11:55:17 AM UTC-5, Ray wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for best structured book to learn Linux System >> Administration. >> >> I work at a Helpdesk at this time and I'm looking for a book that is >> structured for learning Linux from install too building and maintaining the >> Server. >> >> There are many resources out there but most seem disjointed, skipping >> from command line in chapter 1 to installing in chapter 4. I'm going to >> learn it in my own time with the goal to working up to system admin. I'm >> just looking for something that follows a logical sequence. This is the way >> I learn best. The fundamentals then to the advanced. Once I have that I'm >> okay with how things fall. >> >> I still consider myself a newbie with Linux but I'm going to learn it one >> way or the other. >> >> Just looking for recommendations. >> >> >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
