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Mesa Community College Network Academy
CIS238DL – Linux System Administration

Moodle instance

Textbook "Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide" Fifth Edition RHCE (ISBN-13 978-0-07-226454-8)

Useful tools

When making changes to a file, you can show the differences between the old file ( you made a copy, right? ) and the new file using diff. For instance, "diff /etc/syslog.conf /etc/syslog.2007Nov30.conf"

System Administration Resources

• documentation
  • *NIX Rosetta Stone
  • man pages
  • /usr/share/doc
  • The Linux Documentation Project
  • Big Admin
  • RFCs
  • vi graphical cheat sheet
• Organizations
  • LOPSA
  • LUGs such as PLUG
  • Linux Chix
• GNU/Linux distributions and communities
• commercial support
• conferences such as Sysadm Days and LISA
• social activities such as the Free Software Stammtisch
• Wikipedia
• search engines