[Sussex] Network administration training

[Richie Jarvis]

Alan Delaney wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I need some advice please.  At the moment I've got about ten working
> computers that I'm setting up on a home network running Slackware 10.1.
>  My main motivation for this is that I want to learn about system
> administration, network security, etc.  I've decided to give each
> machine a specific role as part of this so for example one machine is a
> web-server, one is a NFS server, one's a multmedia machine, etc.  This,
> I think, should give me a good general idea of system administration as
> well as some basic grounding in the basic debugging and monitoring tools
> needed. However, I'm not sure what would be the best way for me to learn
> more advanced system administration.  So far I've relied on man pages,
> Google searches, etc. which are useful to a point but fairly limited.
> Does anybody know of a good, detailed book, web-site, tutorial, how-to,
> etc. that I could use to really learn the ins and out of Linux network
> administration?  My financial resources are very limited so doing a
> full-time course is out of the question while paid part-time courses are
> unlikely though not imposible, so for now I'm just looking for advice on
> the best way to pursue a part-time home-study project.
> 
> On the other hand if anybody knows of any vacancies for a fairly
> clueless but enthusiastic/obsessed sysadmin trainee then I'd be
> definitely interested!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alan Delaney
Yes - Try the Linux Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition - Its available
in hardcopy, or for free from
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz

Good luck with your task - when doing it for real, it becomes a
thankless one, believe me!

Cheers,

Richie