[NTLUG:Discuss] Good RedHat or Linux Book

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:14:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Bob Byron" <bbyron at radit.com>  said:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Incidentally, you may want to change the config on your mail client;
it is *extremely irritating* (and I'm understating that!) to see the
message twice, once tagged with HTML, and the other with ugly tags at
the ends of lines.  Text does nicely.

> I am a newbie at Linux and would like to know which book I should buy.  =
> First,
> I would like a book that details how to use linuxconf,  Second, I would =
> like to=20
> find out what the best all around Linux (or RedHat 6.1) book would be to =
> help me setup a=20
> Linux server.

I suspect that there may not yet be a book detailing the "care and
feeding" of Linuxconf; the point of that tool is to try to avoid the
need for you to have a book.

The open question is of what it is that you're actually trying to
accomplish.  There can be *substantially* different meanings to the
notion of "setting up a Linux server."

--> If you're building a firewall, you need to look at things from a
    myopically security-oriented standpoint, and you'll be worried
    about portmappers, port scanners, and security tools.

--> If you're building a web server, you have to be more specific, as
    even this has considerable variation of purpose, as you may be
    presenting: 
     -> Information
     -> A "product catalogue"
     -> A communications/messaging center
    just to name three of the more common sorts of web application.
    [Fourth on the list appears to be "graphical image server."]

--> A database server is something else again.

I can't suggest anything directly without a bit more input from you as
to your goals and, indeed, level of "Unix maturity."
--
"In other words  -- and this is the rock solid  principle on which the
whole  of the Corporation's  Galaxy-wide success  is founded  -- their
fundamental design  flaws are  completely hidden by  their superficial
design flaws." -- HHGTG
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