a few quick questions

maybbach · 11-04-2004, 05:50 PM

just a few questions for yall:

1. whats the most widely used distro in use currently (business and home)
2. what good books for linux networking, administration, and general knowledge would yall recomend (or should i just read man pages til my eyes bleed).
3. windows directory services is active directory, what's the linux equivalent for it?

thanks everyone

tangle · 11-04-2004, 07:04 PM

1. I believe it is Red Hat.
2. Running Linux, Linux in a Nutshell and Building Secure Servers with Linux. Are the ones that come to mind dealing just with Linux. This kinda depends on you knowledge level.
3. NIS

jschiwal · 11-04-2004, 07:24 PM

Take a look at the Linux Documentation Project website. They have the NAG guide and the SAG guide (Network Administrator Guide and System Administrator Guide) as well as a number of other guided and howto's.

I don't want your eyes to bleed. Check out the -Tps or -Tdvi options to man. You can use this to print out a nicely formatted printed version.

For info files, find the source .texi files and use the tex command to produce printed versions.

maybbach · 11-04-2004, 08:39 PM

i was readin up a little bit about nis, and ldap is supposed to be replacing it, but isnt ldap used for mail servers?

twantrd · 11-05-2004, 03:14 AM

LDAP is pretty much like active directory, not just for mail servers. I personally like NIS better...

-twantrd