[olug] Help for a newbie system adminstrator

[Dave Thacker]

On Friday 07 August 2009 06:31:24 adunlop wrote:
> Go to O'Reilly's website and start ordering Linux Networking,
> Security, and RHEL system administration books.  You'll probably want
> to snag something on Selinux as well.  http://tldp.org/ and Red Hat's
> website has a lot of information on it as well.
>
> Aaron

I'd consider a subscription to Safari bookshelf.   You can have 10 slots 
(usually 8-10 books) on your shelf for about 20 bucks a month or unlimited 
for $42.  I found it to be very handy.   

Dave Thacker

>
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Edward Monical-Vuylsteke wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your responses. I appreciate it.
> >
> > 1) What are my duties as System Administrator:
> > - For the people who asked, I will be pretty much the person making
> > sure the
> > box is providing the support the end users need. In the long run,
> > this means
> > "whatever needs doing".
> > - Creating and maintaining a development environment for the two
> > developers
> > that will be using the box.
> > - Handling all system related tasks (security, etc).
> >
> > 2) Reason for the request.
> > I currently have no real idea as to the full scope of my duties. It
> > is one
> > of those interesting situations where the whole thing was thrown in
> > my lap,
> > and the person said, make it work. Basically, I am trying to get a
> > grip on
> > where to look and what questions I need to ask to perform the system
> > maintenance duties.
> >
> > The purpose of the environment is to serve as a webserver, currently
> > serving
> > webpages and managing forums.
> >
> > But, I'm fairly certain there is a great deal I am doing that is
> > incorrect
> > or could be done better. Soon, I'm going to need to setup a JBoss
> > application server, and Subversion, which I suspect I can do from
> > their
> > support pages. What I'm not sure of is, how I should be handling the
> > general
> > systems administration.
> >
> > And, thanks again for the helpful comments. :)
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