From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 22:41:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 22:41:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C7237B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:41:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA38396; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:41:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:41:48 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Tim McMillen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4BSD SMM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Hi, I recently aquired the 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual out of > the Usenix/Oreilly set. I was wondering how much of it is applicable to > FreeBSD, and how much of it is too out of date to be useful. Some > obviously are not like the chapter on installing on architectures like the > HP9000. I'm especially interested in the chapters on fsck and FFS. How > applicable are they? I don't want to study something that is incorrect. > Could someone that has it or knows it well comment on what chapters to > avoid perhaps? I would really appreciate it. Thanks, > > Tim Well, I have not read the book... But I can tell you that fsck and FFS haven't radically changed across 4.4BSD implementations. Stay away from architecture dependent sections (except for possibly the i386 :-), as that's where the majority of changes take place. Each OS varies only very slightly at administration level (/etc/rc.d vs /usr/local/etc/rc.d, some slight differences in syntax for system commands...). A good handbook will tell you 10% of what you need to know in the subject area. Leave the rest up to the man pages :-) You'll never find a printed UNIX reference that is 100% "correct". :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message