There are a number of good books out there, but the first one that comes to mind is /UNIX System Administration Handbook, 3rd Edition/ by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein. Specifically covers Solaris 2.7, HP-UX 11.00, Red Hat Linux 6.2, and FreeBSD 3.4.
As I was looking for information about that one, I noticed that Nemeth and company have also published one called /Linux Administration Handbook/. I haven't seen that one before, but it looks like it follows much the same approach as the other, but with a Linux-specific focus (according to Amazon's review, Red Hat 7.2, SuSE 7.3 and Debian 3.0 are covered.) --- "J. Alan Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
