Apache
Apache Server 2.0: A Beginner's Guide
Format: Paperback
Author: Katherine Wrightson
ReleaseDate: 05 September, 2001
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Rating:
Truly not for "beginners" 
Poorly organized book. Look inside this book, it is chock full of complex computer jargon.
Filled With Errors
Every once in a while I pick it up and leaf through it until I find a mistake. I have a copy of this book sitting on my shelf, left over from a previous sys admin. It never takes more than 90 seconds. Today I found on page 124 the claim that one can use "kill -TERM" instead of "kill -9" if one prefers letters to numbers. An author who would make this mistake (-TERM is -15, -9 is -KILL) does not inspire confidence.
The title's a little inaccurate... 
3 series. While this book does cover the software mentioned in its title, it spends a lot of time with the Apache 1. In fact, Apache 2. 0 was still in beta when the book was published so the author seems a little apprehensive with the material.
It is nice as a general overview, and contains a lot of good "filler" such as an appendix on common Unix commands and Unix text editors. .
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