[PLUG] Basic (CentOS) Linux SysAdmin book(s)?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I need to do some training and provide some recommendations for books 
for a guy at work.  He has no Linux or Unix background, and no SysAdmin 
background of any kind (not even Windows), but he has been thrust into a 
role that requires some.  He is diving in and and Googling for answers 
but sooner or later he's going to hit an 'rm -rf /' kind of answer. 
He's already picked up basic navigation and a few simple things like grep.

I will have some off-site training time with him (max of 1 day), and I 
can recommend some books to read.  Aside from the fact that we know that 
1 day is not even enough to scratch the surface, any thoughts on training?

And perhaps more importantly, what are the good books?  I liked _Running 
Linux_ but that was in the 90's some time.  I love _Essential System 
Admin_ but that's too general.  I also like _Linux Cookbook_ and _Linux 
Networking Cookbook_ and will recommend them.  What is good now for 
CentOS 5?

Thanks!
JP
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