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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        Chad Albert <chadalbert@mchsi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Sicco Miedema <s.miedema@home.nl>
Subject:   Re: a few questions, just out of curiosity...
Message-ID:  <20020808204101.F84785-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <007d01c23f21$52cecb30$51b41595@SPGCALBERTA>

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Chad Albert wrote:
> Here are some links I have collected along the way...
> http://bsdvault.net/
> http://freebsd.rogness.net/
> http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/
> http://freebsdhowtos.com/
> http://www.daemonnews.org/new2bsd/
> http://freebsddiary.org/
> And of course there is always
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

Don't know why he'd list the handbook last, but it's a great start!

http://www.bsdforums.org

and look for a local support group ("nerd cluster" hehe) at...

http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#user

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sicco Miedema" <s.miedema@home.nl>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:11 PM
> Subject: a few questions, just out of curiosity...
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just built a FreeBSD mail/dhcp/firewall/samba etc. ( and after that i
> > demolished the harddrive :-(  Tomorrow i am going to reinstall a new
> > harddrive and a new FreeBSD installation. I just had a few questions which
> > would help me improve the new server:
> >
> > 1. Is it just me or is there more documentation available for Linux the
> for
> > FreeBSD (www.freebsddiary.org  is of course a wealth of knowledge, but i
> > was looking for a site like www.linuxdoc.org, yet I did not find anything
> > using google)
> > 1a. [stupid mode on] Why does FreeBSD seem more logical to me then Linux?
> > [stupid mode off]
> > 2. Are there any nice monitoring programs available? Like DU meter for
> > Windows. (this one is just for coolness i was thinking of using SNORT for
> IDS)
> > 3. Is there a way to backup the complete server and restore it within 10
> > mins? Norton ghost would be perfect, but the server doesn't have a
> > diskdrive or cd-rom. I tried to tar the whole harddrive, resulting in a
> > complete chaos an a 3GB tar file... (which i tried to upload to a win2k
> > machine, resulting in /var = full)
> >
> > And at last i would like to thank the people involved in developing
> > FreeBSD. When i come home after a day of win2k server probs it's nice to
> > see at least one server running within established parameters (that is
> > without weird behavior) ;-)
> >
> > Sicco Miedema
> > *This is the most stable computer in the world, as long as you don't run any software on it...*

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