Unix sites

Acidflash

Hi,
just wanted to know if anyone has any idea where to get information on unix system administration and networking.

flamegrill

Excuse me for being General but,

www.google.com works a charm for anything you may have questions for. from pr0n downloads to unix administration, networking with unix and just general networking.

dahamsta

You can also lock yourself into Linux or BSD.

adam

Typedef

<stop posting pointless drivel in my forum>

moist

Any UNIX in particular ?
As others have said, theres stuff all over the web...
However...

Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD Not a lot, there could be a better resource ?
Sun/Solaris
SCO UNIXWare/OpenUNIX
HPUX

And hundreds of others that I don't know off the top of my head.

You could look through amazon.com for some generic books on administraton,
the O'Reilly book "Essential System Administration" is general and pretty good.

If you look really hard you might find HTML copies of these books online :rolleyes:

flamegrill

I'll add one more thing.

Most Unix distributions have Man pages and How-To's shipped with them in both plain txt and or html format.

The Man pages are basically just manuals for different server programs, say apache, proftpd and others. They are more specific however, they are usually specific to programs to maintain and run previously mentioned servers.

The hot-to's are fairly self explanatory. basically if you want to know how to run a specific service or use NAT or just how to use the logrotate function there is a document that walks you thru it.

Regards,
Paul

Trojan

There's a couple of copies of UNIX Unleashed in different places around the web, night be handy.

Al.

Acidflash

I should have been more specific, i was looking for information on any unix distro,i wasn't looking for "how to's" just some general information.
Thanks to all who posted url's they were very helpful

moist

*shrug*
You could start with...
The Linux System Administrators' Guide and...
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide.
(Both LDP)

Linux centric, but the general concepts are pretty much the same for all *NIX.

moist

Originally posted by Trojan
There's a couple of copies of UNIX Unleashed in different places around the web, night be handy.

Forgot about that, I think it was the first UNIX book I read,
set me on my path to glory *cough*
From what I recall it was decent enough covering a few variants, point out differences.

It came with a HTML copy of the book on CD, which is why its all over the net.
Mind you, the one you linked looks wierd, the one on the CD looks like this.

Acidflash

That was perfect, cheers moist

moist

You are most welcome!

Um, which one was perfect Btw. ?

Acidflash

This one http://pluto.phys.nwu.edu/~zhaoyj/learn/Unix-system/toc.htm

daedalusxr

try

http://snet.wit.ie/~daedalus/howtos

there is a lot of howtos on anything you might want to do with linux!