Ask HN: Linux Adminstration Course for non-sysadmins?

11 pointsby justhwvor 14 Jahren8 comments

Is there a site where you can learn or polish your skills in sys admin? I'm a dev mainly but when I run into admin problems (ex. adding ssl, ip etc..) searching Google is not efficient. These documents are scattered all over the web.

Also, I'm not trying to get a certificate, I just need to know enough.

7 comments

gexlavor 14 Jahren

There are so many things you might run into that I don't know how a course could possibly cover more than the very basics (using Bash, basic commands, etc.)

Miguel has a good blog post on learning Linux.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-06.html

Another great resource is to pick up a Linode VPS and go through the library.

http://library.linode.com/

I owe a lot of my start in Linux to the Slicehost articles but Slicehost is going away as it gets eaten by Rackspace.

Skip the courses, they are a waste of time.

antidohvor 14 Jahren

You don't have to rent a VPS, you can [use linode and slicehost docs and] just run on your laptop, or even better on a virtual machine. Throw away your mistakes, for free.

http://articles.slicehost.com/sitemap

http://slicehost.com/community/

edit: [clarified]

kordlessvor 14 Jahren

You need these three things:

1. A book (http://www.amazon.com/System-Administration-Handbook-Edition...)

2. An infrastructure (http://openstack.org/)

3. A community (http://serverfault.com/)

Oh, and some fun (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse)

:)

antidohvor 14 Jahren

AElien Frisch wrote a good book: Essential System Administration (3rd ed), http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978059600...

Some/all of her books: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/678#Books

Her O'Reilly articles: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/678#Books

Any system administrator or general user can learn a lot from Unix Power Tools:

New, 3rd ed: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/678#Books

Cheap, 2nd ed (prolly good enough if $ matters): http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8354343877&...

Some of this looks good, some looks like crap: http://www.amazon.com/s/&url=search-alias=aps&field-...

lifeguardvor 14 Jahren

You could start with these google tutorials: http://code.google.com/edu/tools101/index.html

It is a commitment, but I recommend reading "The Manual": _UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook_ by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Unix-and-Linux-System-Admin...

ejenkinsiiivor 14 Jahren

I don't know what level your looking for or if you want certification but here are two i've been eyeballing for some time now and both are expensive http://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/series/linx_rea... or http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/sysadmin3/ both are online

dgallaghervor 14 Jahren

The Ubuntu Server Guide is an easy to read, succinct manual: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/

That'll cover basic Ubuntu sysadmin tasks, which is Debian-based. It's a good place to start.

lsiebertvor 14 Jahren

Have you considered joining some relevant mailing lists? Alternatively, you can ask stuff on Stack Overflow.

In terms of more general learning, I suspect that much of it is very domain specific. Are you on a LAMP stack?