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["Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>]

 

- Start grabbing old computers as you see 'em.

- They should be really cheap - less than $100.

- They should still have some vile old M$ OS running on them.

- Do a nice bare-bones linux install - don't let it install Apache, etc... 

- Install all patches to the OS.

- chant: "I *will* install Apache, PHP and MySQL on this machine!"

- Secure the box with something like LogSentry, Portsentry

  and HostSentry: http://www.psionic.com/

- make a little tea party happen between your machines with samba.

 

Remember also that the more machines you have scattered througout your home, the more credibility you will have amongst the illumini. Ideally you will have 1 monitor for all of these machines.

 

Practice saying things like: "Well, I like how Redhat 5.2 works in the foyer, but for the Master Bedroom, I think Slackware would be nice."

 

Remember to give your machines names that seem obscure, but are well known to geeks. (Orchrist and Glamdring were my first 2 home Linux boxes.)

 

I realize you didn't ask to learn how to be a sysadmin, you asked to learn tasks. Alas! You must sometimes associate with other sysadmins to learn things, and it helps to know the peculiar social skills involved.

 

Joe K

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Beth Ellison

To: InterNetWorkers

Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:09 PM

Subject: [internetworkers] Learning sys admin type stuff

Hey People,

 

I wanna learn more sys admin related tasks. More specifically, linux sys admin stuff--bind, samba, apache, OpenSSH, CVS, and so on. I know that the O'Reilly books are excellent and that working at Red Hat gives me a lot of good resources for things like this, but it never hurts to poke about for additional ideas. Write me offlist if you want, but I bet others here could benefit from some suggestions as well.

 

Beth

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