[HN Gopher] Linux Sysops Handbook
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Linux Sysops Handbook
Author : abarrak
Score : 143 points
Date : 2022-02-22 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| kodah wrote:
| It amazes me sometimes how much of a dying breed systems
| engineers are. When I was coming up as a SWE I worked for a
| series of systems engineers, so I learned software from a systems
| engineering perspective and it's been invaluable as distributed
| systems have gotten bigger and more OS-like.
|
| If you're wanting to dive a little deeper than this guide touches
| check out:
|
| - https://man7.org/tlpi/ - Really good for understanding how to
| build applications within a Linux ecosystem.
|
| - https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/...
| - Really good for understanding why Linux is the way it is. The
| Kernel this book was written on is awful old, but the principles
| shine through.
| nunez wrote:
| While this is very Debian centric, this is a really good
| reference.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I love this, have a friend interviewing for a SysOps role and
| this is so timely.
| ketanmaheshwari wrote:
| Very nice! I would add a section on "How to get help on terminal"
| and discuss manpages, the -h / -help flags, info / pinfo pages
| and the /usr/share/doc location.
| sigio wrote:
| I've also started writing something like this a while ago, but
| then ran out of time again. It's something I'll probably work on
| again when my workweeks get a bit shorter again.
|
| https://linuxsysadminbook.sigio.nl/
| say_it_as_it_is wrote:
| Isn't this missing about 10,000 pages?
| tadbit wrote:
| Historically handbooks are smaller, shorter reference guides.
| Something that's portable and easy to carry with you.
|
| Something 10k+ pages in length doesn't fit that description.
| abarrak wrote:
| Source: https://github.com/abarrak/linux-sysops-handbook
| bovermyer wrote:
| There is no replacing the Unix and Linux System Administration
| Handbook.
| abarrak wrote:
| No doubt, meant to be self study notebook originally. Listed in
| the end couple of whole interesting reads.
| geocrasher wrote:
| This is definitely a quick reference, definitely short, and
| definitely missing a ton of things.
|
| And it's awesome. This is just the thing a new Linux user needs
| to start understanding the ecosystem.
| anonymousiam wrote:
| My first impression as well. You could take some IT grad and
| give them this handbook and then they would be dangerous, but
| not very effective.
|
| Back in the day, when I was first exposed to Unix (on Sun3),
| one of the sysadmins pointed me to the 'man' feature. After a
| while I figured out that I could do a man -k - to get a list of
| all the man pages (because the summary for each page includes a
| '-'). So I did that and printed out the result (lp/lpr). At
| that time, the total number of man page entries fit on
| something like half a dozen pages. I spent a few days (part
| time) reading each one. It was a great way to learn.
|
| My current Linux desktop (Mint) gives the following for man -k
| - | wc: 2943 26748 200002
|
| That list would fit on 50 printed pages, which is about 10x
| what it was 37 years ago.
|
| So if you have the patience to read almost 3k man pages, you
| too can become a Linux expert.
| rythmshifter03 wrote:
| This is amazingly useful to a person learning Linux in a
| corporate environment where they've just been thrown to the
| wolves to figure it out. Thank you!!
| sp33der89 wrote:
| As somebody who's in this exact same position(well not really
| corporate), I feel the same way about this guide.
|
| Thanks so much the author!
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