Best way to learn way round linux/red hat

[MatthewP]

I've just had to move a site to it's own linux server which is red hat 6.0, and had to do stuff like set up MySQL users and install software for the first time, which I've somehow managed to do after about 4 weeks. I'm looking for a good reference book to find my way around the system properly now, from scratch up to expert, and hoping for a recommendation from someone, as the whole thing is confusing me like you wouldn't believe!

I need to know stuff like what all the directories are for, where error logs are, what exactly is bash etc.. Too many questions, I seem to have got somewhere but am seriously missing some good basic information...

Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks,
Matt.

 

[mlazlo]

Here are some places to start.

http://www.linux.org/lessons/page.cgi?PageID=14

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

http://www.linux.com/learn/newsitem.phtml?sid=93&aid=12555

Good Luck.

 

[fluid11]

O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell (3rd Edition) book is the best Linux reference book around. It won't teach you Linux from scratch, but its a lot better than looking at man and info pages. It tells you about all the commands and their options and even shows you examples of them (something the man pages don't do). You can get it at Amazon below...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...2392/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_67_4/104-1741010-8603156