[olug] Help for a newbie systems administrator

[John Moran]

To me, knowing EVERYTHING the box does, in detail, is the most important.  I
second the vote for Google and Red Hat forums, but if you don't know what
the box is supposed to be doing, it will be Hell to fix it if there are
problems.

Get a list of everything that runs on the box - versions, ports used, etc.
If you have problems, a lot of people / resources will be able to help you
get A box running, but they won't know anything about YOUR box.

Once you have trouble, it's too late to start gathering the info.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Edward Monical-Vuylsteke <
solrane.altari at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have recently been put into the position of serving as a Linux systems
> administrator, with only user level experience with a Linux architecture.
>
> Currently, I believe it is a CentOS box. *doesn't have the information
> right
> in front of him*
>
> I was wondering if there would be some pointers/information that you might
> recommend looking at to get started, to help from getting lost in the
> morass
> of information. I'm just not certain where the best place is to start
> getting reliable information.
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