[QCLUG] Server admin

[Patrick O'Lone]

I would suggest:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/

Essential System Administration. In fact, I would pretty much suggest
getting an O'Reilly book first before exploring others. The book covers
a range of topics including DNS, security, user management, mail,
networking, and other general administration topics.

Information about DNS and Apache are also available from their collection.

> Hey guys,
> 
> Me again.  Some of you administer servers, yes?  I've been trying to
> find a book that can help me along.  Anyone have an opinion on Craig
> Hunt's books?  Like, how about _Linux Apache Web Server
> Administration_?  Or maybe his _Linux DNS Server Administration_? 
> There's one called _Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide_ by Steve
> Shah and Wale Soyinka that has some info on DNS and IP chaining that
> might be helpful.  It's hard to know what it is that I might need to
> know, until I run into it!  So far, I've managed to stumble thru getting
> nameservers configured and up and running, closed the open dns
> problem--had to edit config files rather than any GUI option!--but I
> still want to learn the best use of our other IPs (we have four). 
> Mostly, it's set up to use WHM and Cpanel, but they have already been
> found lacking.
> 
> Went to Borders hoping to find it to take a peek inside but, alas, they
> do not carry it.  Can't say as I blame them, tho!  Computer books get
> obsolete SO fast!  Is there a newsgroup I can lurk in?
> 
> Also, what do you think of Diceware.com's method of selecting a
> passphrase?  Is it overkill to use public/private keys to log in to
> one's server, or necessary security?  If there is a directory on the
> server called ssh (or .ssh), does not that mean that it is ssh1 rather
> than ssh2?  That's what I'm understanding from the putty docs.  I did
> download SecureCRT to try it out, but don't think I wanna pay 99 bucks
> for it!
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Juanita
> 
> 


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