[LUNA] Unix training & book recommendation

[Paul F. Pearson]

I think distrowatch had a recommendation or two several weeks back. If I get a chance, I'll go look. Otherwise, you should be able to go back and look.

On this:
> How to configure, start and stop services

That's apparently changing for Linux, but not for BSD. Ubuntu introduced upstart, which several distros (including RHEL6) adopted; this has generally been considered a mistake. Most Linux distros now seem to be moving to systemd (I think Slackware is holding out for now, not sure about others;I think Debian is still discussing it). Since systemd is Linux specific, the BSD community is staying put as far as I can tell. 

I don't know much about systemd (just installed Arch recently, so I'll likely get to know it eventually), but everything I've read says that it's pretty different. In my mind, it seems rather monolithic and all consuming; it's now the official keeper of udev. 

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Paul F. Pearson
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----- "Chris Key" <crkey at crkey.com> wrote:

> Basic goals:
> Know how to login
> Navigate the file system
> Where to find logs
> How to configure, start and stop services
> Use grep, sed, awk to process log or data files, ex. Convert CSV to
> LDIF, pull only specific items out of logs
> Introduced to Perl and shell scripting
> Securely transfer files between servers, including automated
> Schedule tasks via cron
> Set or change IP addressing, troubleshoot network connections
> 
> Am I missing anything?  I'm sure I am.
> 
> Christopher R Key 
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> > On Mar 21, 2014, at 20:42, "Michael W. Hall" <hallmw at att.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > What are the objectives of the training?  You want the students to
> learn
> > basic commands for the command line?  
> > 
> >> On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 20:52 -0400, Christopher R. Key wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a recommendation on a goo Unix reference or "learn
> 
> >> Unix" book that I can provide to new hires.
> >> 
> >> I'm needing to revamp the training we do for our campus new hires,
> 
> >> which includes a course on Unix skills.  Sadly what we've been
> finding 
> >> is college graduates have little to no Unix skills (yes I know, I
> could 
> >> probably recruit at your school but that's not the point).  The 
> >> expectation is a one day class, but the learned skills would be
> used 
> >> over the course of the 5 week bootcamp.
> >> 
> >> Here are some I've had or used in the past.  I'm curious what this
> 
> >> group's thoughts are, especially since most of these are dated
> (Unix 
> >> doesn't change, but given the last IP conversation, apparently it
> is).
> >> 
> >> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002619.do
> >> Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition (O'Reilly 2001)
> >> 
> >>
> http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Linux-Visual-QuickStart-Edition/dp/0321636783/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1395247274&sr=8-18&keywords=unix
> >> Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition (2009)
> >> 
> >>
> http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Impatient-Edition-Paul-Abrahams/dp/0201823764/ref=sr_1_98?ie=UTF8&qid=1395247381&sr=8-98&keywords=unix
> >> UNIX for the Impatient, 2nd Edition (1995)
> > 
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