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Hi Cindee, I would look at your local community colleges to see if they have any classes if yu haven't already done so. I know not all of them have a good practical course in UNIX, but many of them do. Edward On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Cindee Phillips <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I realize this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I'm hoping someone > might have some advice or recommendations for me concerning Unix training. > > I moved from cataloging to our systems position two years ago. At the time, > we were on a maintenance contract with our ILS vendor, meaning I only needed > to do very basic things with the server (my job primarily entailed running > reports against our data and working with some other locally developed > Access applications.) > > Last summer, we joined a consortium and migrated our catalog to their > servers, and would like to do something else now with the server we were > previously using for our ILS, probably along the lines of archiving locally > produced media on it. > > But I obviously need more training. It's a Sun box, running Oracle 9, and > I've looked at several companies that do short term classroom training > (i.e., www.learningtree.com ( http://www.learningtree.com/ )), but I've > also been considering online coursework, either by Sun ( > http://www.sun.com/training/) or, perhaps O'Reilly > http://www.oreillyschool.com/. > > I learn pretty well on my own (I figured out by myself most of the basic > Unix stuff in respect to copying and moving files, working with vi, working > with the crontab, etc.) but would want any course I sign up for to have an > instructor to ask questions of. > > Does anyone have any experience with any of these programs they'd be > willing to share? > > I'm sending this to several lists, so apologies for cross-posting. > > > > > > > > Cindee Phillips > [log in to unmask] > Library Systems Administrator > Rolfing Library/Trinity International University > Deerfield, IL, 60015 / (847)317-4021 >