Not exactly a textbook, but of the Linux books I have, "Linux System Administration, A User's Guide" by Marcel Gagne (Addison Wesley) is the most helpful for me. It covers a lot of ground at beginner to intermediate level, with not too much or too little detail, in my opinion. I also refer to my copies of "Linux Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, and Hein (Prentice Hall), which incidentally has exercises like a textbook, but is a little too deep in places, and "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh (O'Reilly), which I think is good for "generic" information but harder to relate to questions about specific distributions of Linux. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list