On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, Justin Ellison wrote: > I'm a linux user of 3 years who manages 10-15 RedHat servers at work, > and I've run Gentoo on my laptop since 1.2. > The mailing list is great, but the noise floor is too much for me. First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is your friend. Impliment one using your email-client-of-choice and your scripting-language-of-choice. Procmail + Mutt + common shell tools can do it. debian-user is a flood of information. > I know all the generic linux related stuff, I need to know more about the > specifics of Debian, ie, roll-your-own deb's, kernel building, adding my > own modules to the installation kernel, etc. You don't need books to learn debian. For the basics, try: http://www.debian.org/doc/ For package management, including building debs, try: man apt-get man apt-cache man dpkg man dpkg-source man dpkg-buildpackage ls /usr/share/doc For roll-your-own-kernels the debian way, try: apt-get install kernel-package man make-kpkg For patching the boot floppy for a customer kernel, try: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html If you are planning to switch those 10-15 RH servers over to Debian in the future, may I also suggest looking at: apt-cache show apt-proxy For all good debian questions, try: http://groups.google.com (include debian in your search terms) > Anyone have any good books that could get me up and running nice and > quickly? There is a _Running_Debian_ book, but I have yet to review it. _Unix_Power_Tools_ is a must read for any linux user, I like to think. _Running_Linux_ is a good general linux book. Plus, of course, a good reference book for your favorite scripting language. :) Btw, are you trying to move away from Redhat do to the nearing end-of-life of their 'free' line? Just curious. ~ Jesse Meyer -- icq: 34583382 | Nethack 3.4._3_ is out! http://www.nethack.org jabber: dasunt@theoretic.com | "And how can man die better / Than facing msn: dasunt@hotmail.com | fearful odds / For the ashes of his fathers / yim: tsunad | and the temples of his gods?" ~ Babington
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