I recommend you add to your O'Reilly collection. Go with the Armadillo: Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition
By leen Frisch 3rd Edition August 2002 ISBN: 0-596-00343-9 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3 -matt On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, J. Alan Atherton wrote: > (If you don't want to read this whole message (some dry humor) you can skip to the >last line for the point) > I would like to have a general reference around so I don't have to dig around the >net or ask a question here every time something small comes up that I want to do. >The internet opinion of "Linux in a Nutshell" (1999) seems to be pretty good. I want >something that will explain just enough of many basic administration commands and >principles. Examples are most desired. I don't think the book needs to be terribly >new... my intention is to convert my 200Mhz multi-tasker (current tasks are: alarm >clock holder, workbench, floorspace reservation, and aesthetic appeal) into a little >server of just about everything (experiments). Things like apache, mail serving, >dhcp, ip masquerading, and all that. I suppose, thinking about it, that I may not >want a linux reference, but a unix reference... dunno. I get the general feel that >Debian is something good to learn for such experiment projects as well. I want to do >all of this commando-line style too... no X (Hey, I remember learning DOS before it >was version 6... I'm not toooo young :) > > So a general linux/unix administration reference is what I'm after I guess. > > - J. Alan Atherton > "Just my 10 bits" > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
