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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Windows Admin switching to *nix Admin Post 302499144 by Corona688 on Wednesday 23rd of February 2011 10:23:44 AM
Old 02-23-2011
One way would be courses and certifications of course, though my experience with them has been poor... Lots of canned problems and canned answers, sometimes some really distro-specific things not applicable anywhere else, and not a lot of help teaching you how to troubleshoot. You will need to learn the basics to make much sense of it of course; file permissions, users, ownership and groups, disks and partitions are radically different from Windows' organization.

Install a variety of UNIX or Linux on a computer of your own -- doesn't have to be on your 'good' computer, in fact, probably better it isn't in case something goes seriously wrong. Most any "throwaway" PIII/PIV with 512M of RAM or better is great for a home server. Linux technically isn't UNIX by the way -- in the strictest sense that means an OS literally descended from one of the original UNIX varieties, but Linux was made from scratch and distanced from UNIX for copyright reasons. FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenSolaris are open varieties of UNIX. Don't install one of the toy Linux varieties(Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mandriva, anything really graphically-oriented) -- the GUI pretty much takes over those and you won't learn a lot. Try Gentoo, or Debian, or Fedoracore.

And once you have it, seriously use it. Make a home webserver/fileserver, get SSH going for remote access, see what problems you have to fight through to make things work.

Last edited by Corona688; 02-23-2011 at 11:34 AM..
 

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UNIXSERVER(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UNIXSERVER(1)

NAME
unixserver - UNIX domain socket server SYNOPSIS
unixserver [options] socket program DESCRIPTION
Unixserver is UNIX domain socket server that conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface. OPTIONS
-q Quiet. Do not print any messages. -Q (default) Print error messages. -v Verbose. Print error and status messages. -d Do not delete the socket file on exit. -D (default) Delete the socket file on exit. -u UID Change user id to UID after creating socket. -g GID Change group id to GID after creating socket. -U Same as '-u $UID -g $GID'. -o UID Make the socket owned by UID. -r GID Make the socket group owned by GID. -O Same as '-o $SOCKET_UID -r $SOCKET_GID'. -p PERM Set the permissions on the created socket (in octal). Note: this option, if set, overrides the mask below. (defaults to 0666 minus umask) -m MASK Set umask to MASK (in octal) before creating socket. (defaults to 0, previous value is restored afterwards) -c N Do not handle more than N simultaneous connections. (default 10) -b N Allow a backlog of N connections. -B BANNER Write BANNER to the client immediately after connecting. SEE ALSO
unixclient(1), unixcat(1) http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt AUTHOR
ucspi-unix package was written by Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> This manual page was originally written by Tomas Kuliavas <tokul@bigfoot.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere under the GPL. UNIXSERVER(1)
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