Server Admin Work

I need to brush up on my system administration skills for the upcoming Summer Geek camp. Likewise, after doing office admin work for much of the new year, I’m back to system administration work. The reason — my file server died and it almost cost us BIG. Now to my schedule for review:

• server installation
• server security
• server optimization
• kernel building and optimization (if possible)
• firewalls
• postfix
• dovecot
• mysql
• apache or lighttpd

I’m itching to try drupal but its sheer size and complexity is intimidating. Anyhow, I’ll just post here any bits I may glean from all my references….