Newbie Server Admin

I am just getting my first web server running (well, second actually) and I want to find a good book on server/system administration (linux oriented ideally. I know, almost all them are). Something that covers all the basic housekeeping, cron jobs, network config, security, remote access, troubleshooting, etc, etc. Any suggestions?

...Something that covers all the basic housekeeping, cron jobs, network config, security, remote access, troubleshooting, etc, etc. Any suggestions?
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Others will probably shoot me, but you could try to get your hands on the self study kits Novell offers for this, there is enough floating around;

#1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Administration (Course 3072)
#2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Advanced Administration (Course 3073)
#3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10: Networking Services (Course 3074)
#4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10: Security (Course 3075)

It's quite close to how to do things on openSUSE and also has a general Linux approach to things, using the CLI but next to it also YaST.

2 and 3 probably cover much of what you are looking for...

Cheers,
Wj

Thanks, that sounds interesting! Where do I find that stuff?

Edit: Never mid. Found em.

Thanks, that sounds interesting! Where do I find that stuff?

Edit: Never mid. Found em.
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I am currently doing the above courses, and can say once you understand them, they are good.

SUSE Linux 10 Bible[u] (Gets updated to some point releases). Wiley Publications. There's also one for Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva and ???. 850 pages, retails for $40 or so.

BD

I am aware of those books; do they provide good coverage of server administration?

Those courses looked good, but if I read the website correctly, they cost around $395 for a self-led course. Ouch.

You can find them in pdf format and do not need the whole study kit if it's for your own use.

Are you serious! Well, that would be great, but where do I find them?