From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 17 10:36:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (lists.sysadmin-inc.com [209.16.228.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E119737B4F9 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 98wkst ([10.10.1.71]) by virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA05680; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:40:08 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Peter Brezny" To: "'Nick Rogness'" Cc: Subject: RE: How To's Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:36:08 -0400 Message-ID: <000801c03860$bc67a9a0$47010a0a@fire.sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick, It sounds like you have exactly what a lot of us need. I'm not subscribed to the doc mail list so I don't know what others have said unless they cc'd me directly. I'm not a programmer but I do a lot of freebsd admin stuff. and your notes sound like a perfect place to start work on a good how too list. I'd be glad to start converting your notes into HOW-TO's for freebsd. I guess I'll need to put it in sgml format? who do we contact at the documentation project to see if they would like this done in some kind of 'official' capacity? or should we just put up an independent site? I run a small web hosting business so server space is not a problem. Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rogness [mailto:nick@rapidnet.com] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:47 PM To: Rick Hamell Cc: Peter Brezny; freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How To's On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > Sounds like you're voluntreeing to head this up... :) > > I have to agree with you though... there is an awful lot of > documentation that is hard to find from the main site. The real question > is, do the people who wrote it wish it to be merged in to the > handbook...? That is one of the reasons why I've been making my web > site... there is no one central place for everyone to get a list of links > from. I have a lot of documentation (HOW-TO's) that I have written up. Well, most of it is actually my notes...but could be converted to HOW-TO's with little effort. Most of it is how to put everything together to work right. This stuff is all geared toward the everyday SYS-ADMIN...not the programmers. If we could put this together on 1 common site, then we could point everyone there. I've talked with several people that TRIED to run FreeBSD and ran into problems when looking for info on HOW-TO do stuff. I will help in anyway possible. What I have now includes: Tunnels/VPN's (with IPSEC) Apache (with Virthosts and SSL) DNS (setup,naming schemes,management,making other apps work right) Firewalling (IPFW,NAT,SRC-ROUTING,DUMMYNET,BRIDGE) NATd (Proxy arp, PUBLIC/PRIVATE aliasing, Making your BSD machine work like a Cisco PIX) Sendmail(Virtuser/aliasing,domain support,cf building with m4,etc) Routing (static & dynamic with gated) Samba/WINS Fun with SSH and Expect. and other generic stuff (automation stuff) Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message