[olug] Help for a newbie systems administrator

[Chris St. Pierre]

While the other resources suggested are excellent, systems
administration is *not* the art of knowing a lot about Linux.  I
highly recommend that you purchase a copy of "The Practice Of System
and Network Administration," by Tom Limoncelli, Christine Hogan, and
Strata Chalup.  TPOSANA tackles the soft topics of sysadminning, and
does so brilliantly.  If you want to be something more than "the guy
who knows a lot about Linux" -- if you actually want to be a
professional as opposed to a paid hobbyist -- TPOSANA is required
reading in my opinion.

Good luck!

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Edward Monical-Vuylsteke wrote:

> I have recently been put into the position of serving as a Linux systems
> administrator, with only user level experience with a Linux architecture.
>
> Currently, I believe it is a CentOS box. *doesn't have the information right
> in front of him*
>
> I was wondering if there would be some pointers/information that you might
> recommend looking at to get started, to help from getting lost in the morass
> of information. I'm just not certain where the best place is to start
> getting reliable information.
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