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Ask HN: book recommendations for linux server admin?

1 points by HockeyPlayer 17y ago

I'm an experienced developer, but have never done any significant server administration. I can use vi and navigate the filesystem, but that is about it. We are moving our low latency trading application from Windows to linux. I'm not becoming a server admin, but we're a small company, and I'll likely be managing the performance lab machines. I'm looking for book recommendations given the following: + We're going to use RH or SUSE (not yet decided) + We may end up running a realtime version: RH/MRG or SLERT + We have ~50 servers + We're interesting in tuning network performance to improve latency and may want to adjust process priorities. + We won't be running a window manager + Our servers are not connected to the internet: we aren't handling email or web traffic Thanks!

jpluscplusm 17y ago
As a sysadmin who wishes he'd discovered this book earlier, I have no problem with recommending "The Practice of System and Network Administration" as a great resource: http://everythingsysadmin.com/aboutbook.html http://everythingsysadmin.com/aboutbook.html It's definitely an OS-agnostic book, so if you're looking for "how do we do task/process/design A with OS B?", it's not the right fit. It'd still be worth it if you're expecting to have to do anything except the very shortest-term systems administration.