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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Looking for Advice from Experts Post 302269883 by mbubb on Friday 19th of December 2008 12:42:56 AM
Old 12-19-2008
Hello -

A pretty open ended question with lots of embedded issues. I am not an expert but have been working as a UNIX/ Linux Admin for about 3 yrs.

Pretty good place to start (IMHO) are some UNIX sys admin books. A few authors off the top of my head: Tom Limonicelli (sp?); Evi Nemeth, et al; Aeleen Frisch. I am sure I am forgetting some. These books (ie the O'Reilly Essential Unix System Administration by Frisch) are really useful as general, broad references. They lead to deeper topics and other books. The books I've read by Tom Limonicelli have been invaluable for learning how to become more professional and systematizing your day to day practice. I find myself going back to these authors over and over.

As for CompSci programs - it is always a good idea to go to school if you have time+money but I am not sure that it is completely necessary to become a sysadmin. I have take graduate cert courses at a local engineering school (Stevens Tech) and some were really valuable. I even took a course in Unix Systems Administration but I am not sure it is still offered...

One general theme of sysadmin books is the idea that the field is more akin to a guild than an academic discipline. As with a craft or a trade, your learning is typically an alternation of practice and study. And learning from master craftspeople. I have found my local LUG (NYLUG) pretty valuable and try to keep abreast of discussions on groups like SAGE and LOPSA.

You are already on this list which is a fine one. There are more to search out.

See yourself as a member of a guild, I really thing this is a "useful fiction" as System Administration is one of those fields that is hard to define.

Hope this helps abit with the first part of the question...

As for Linux/ Unix distribution choice. Just keep trying them. You will probably gravitate towards a particular way of package management/ software installation and that will be your distribution.

I happen to be on Ubuntu for work and it is fine. I like Debian so Ubuntu is a comfortable fit.

I worked on NetBSD for a while and found pkgsrc really interesting. Likewise for OpenBSD which I have on a laptop at home.

I havent met too many distributions that I didnt find worth checking out, though I don't tend to choose RedHat or SUSE.

best of luck

Michael
 

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There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list of these books, some with extensive reviews, at http://books.perl.org/ . We list some of the books here, and while listing a book implies our endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything. Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online ( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ). The most popular books The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is Programming Perl: Programming Perl (the "Camel Book"): by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012] ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927 The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to accomplish specific tasks: The Perl Cookbook (the "Ram Book"): by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, with Foreword by Larry Wall ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/ If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about programming: Learning Perl (the "Llama Book") by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011] http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452 The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures, object-oriented programming, and modules: Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book") by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix foreword by Damian Conway ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012] http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920012689/ References You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard: Perl 5 Pocket Reference by Johan Vromans ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011] ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook] http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/ Perl Debugger Pocket Reference by Richard Foley ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/ Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/ Tutorials Beginning Perl by James Lee ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010] http://www.apress.com/9781430227939 Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106 Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book") by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix foreword by Damian Conway ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067 Mastering Perl by brian d foy ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242 Effective Perl Programming by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010] http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/ Task-Oriented Writing Perl Modules for CPAN by Sam Tregar ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002] http://www.apress.com/9781590590188 The Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington with foreword by Larry Wall ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135 Automating System Administration with Perl by David N. Blank-Edelman ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396 Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl by Linchi Shea ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003] http://www.apress.com/9781590590973 Special Topics Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694 Programming the Perl DBI by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998 Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735 Higher-Order Perl by Mark-Jason Dominus ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005] http://hop.perl.plover.com/ Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126 Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln Stein ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001] http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page Perl Template Toolkit by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767 Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999] http://www.manning.com/conway/ Data Munging with Perl by Dave Cross ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001] http://www.manning.com/cross Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162 Extending and Embedding Perl by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002] http://www.manning.com/jenness Pro Perl Debugging by Richard Foley with Andy Lester ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005] http://www.apress.com/9781590594544 Free (as in beer) books Some of these books are available as free downloads. Higher-Order Perl: http://hop.perl.plover.com/ Other interesting, non-Perl books You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental: Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999] More Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988] A note on freshness Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html . Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day. Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to limit this list to books published in the past five years. Get your book listed If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know. perl v5.18.2 2013-11-04 PERLBOOK(1)
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