I just went looking for some manuals for a friend of mine who is new to Linux. I installed CentOS 6.5 on his machine. The CentOS.org web site has documentation up to CentOS 5.
Where can I look to find the manuals for CentOS 6?
And although written for the purpose of someone looking to pass the Linux+ exam, I found that Roderick W. Smith’s “…Linux+ Study Guide…” (I think mine was 3rd edition) did a good job of explaining WHY you use certain commands to do things. To me that book provided information in an easy enough to read manner.
Even when this disclaimer is not here:
I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
And if they’re running it, what I recommended for years was the O’Reilly book by Aeline Frisch, “Essential Systems Administration”, which is
*wonderful*. I don’t have it, but I know O’Reilly publishes a Linux admin book.
And if your friend doesn’t know O’Reilly, introduce him to them.
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1) Stop top-posting to this mailing list, please. Thank you.
2) The link I provided takes you to the main documentation index with the RHEL docuemtnation as the first set displayed. If someone can’t find what they are after from that they have other problems.
I love that book :)
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Where I was working in the early nineties, most folks knew of the find command, but other than the sysadmin, *no* one knew how to use it. Then I
bought the book, and read the first chapter, and literally the next day, I
really needed it, and now knew how.
’95-’97, I was working for Ameritech, one of the Baby Bells (since swallowed by SBC, er, “AT&T”). A couple weeks after I started, my managers asked if I wanted to be sysadmin, too… which was how I got into doing sysadmin. The next year, along with my …late… wife, I was sleeping with that book. After about a year, as the division had grown from 4 teams to 27(!), they brought in the corporate sysadmins, who I got friendly with, fast. They told me of all those teams, there were only *two* whose servers looked normal (as opposed to everyone having root, and crap directories all over…), and one was mine.
Ever since, I *frequently* recommend, for folks new to *Nix, to read chapter 2, The Unix Way, so you understand what it’s all about, and how it hangs together and makes sense.
If I ever get to meet Ms. Frisch, I *really* owe her a drink.
7 thoughts on - CentOS 6 Manuals
http://docs.redhat.com
John
A little more exact may help. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
—- Sunshare
At 2014-05-21 08:16:11, “John R. Dennison” wrote:
Just how NEW to Linux is this friend?
It might be better to introduce them to some easier guides first instead of the SysAdm level docs that comes for CentOS 6. http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#intro-linux
And although written for the purpose of someone looking to pass the Linux+ exam, I found that Roderick W. Smith’s “…Linux+ Study Guide…” (I think mine was 3rd edition) did a good job of explaining WHY you use certain commands to do things. To me that book provided information in an easy enough to read manner.
Even when this disclaimer is not here:
I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
And if they’re running it, what I recommended for years was the O’Reilly book by Aeline Frisch, “Essential Systems Administration”, which is
*wonderful*. I don’t have it, but I know O’Reilly publishes a Linux admin book.
And if your friend doesn’t know O’Reilly, introduce him to them.
mark “not getting a kickback for this”
1) Stop top-posting to this mailing list, please. Thank you.
2) The link I provided takes you to the main documentation index with the RHEL docuemtnation as the first set displayed. If someone can’t find what they are after from that they have other problems.
I love that book :)
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Where I was working in the early nineties, most folks knew of the find command, but other than the sysadmin, *no* one knew how to use it. Then I
bought the book, and read the first chapter, and literally the next day, I
really needed it, and now knew how.
’95-’97, I was working for Ameritech, one of the Baby Bells (since swallowed by SBC, er, “AT&T”). A couple weeks after I started, my managers asked if I wanted to be sysadmin, too… which was how I got into doing sysadmin. The next year, along with my …late… wife, I was sleeping with that book. After about a year, as the division had grown from 4 teams to 27(!), they brought in the corporate sysadmins, who I got friendly with, fast. They told me of all those teams, there were only *two* whose servers looked normal (as opposed to everyone having root, and crap directories all over…), and one was mine.
Ever since, I *frequently* recommend, for folks new to *Nix, to read chapter 2, The Unix Way, so you understand what it’s all about, and how it hangs together and makes sense.
If I ever get to meet Ms. Frisch, I *really* owe her a drink.
mark