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Call me clueless. I've been admining a Linux box for 5 years and I've never felt the urge to rebuild the kernel. Ongoing stability is more important to me than keeping up with the latest.
Having said that, what I'm running is badly in need of upgrading, simply because it's sometimes hard to install new software I want on it because it has old versions of stuff. But most of the times I can do that on other boxen. What I really need this one to do is server up web pages and email, and never crash. And it does.
Anyway, two books that I would recommend. They're complementary in some ways. "The UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth et al. has been a favorite of mine through three editions. They now have a "Linux Administration Handbook".
Second, Essential System Administration Aeleen Frisch, from O'Reilly (a company which, if you haven't heard of it, has published the definitive works on many UNIX-y kinds of things such as perl and sendmail).
Both will serve you well.
Both will serve you well.
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