Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:23:39 -0700 From: David Knapp <dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd for ISP Resources. Message-ID: <377A286B.939742D@luciamar.k12.ca.us> References: <3.0.6.32.19990630083540.008d4310@intranet.com.mx>
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One thing to do if you haven't already is to subscribe to Freebsd-isp - it is a low volume list dedicated to isp's who are using FreeBSD. Go here for info on how to subscribe to it, and all the other Freebsd lists. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL hth dbk Jorge Biquez wrote: > > Hello all. > > I'm sorry in advance if this question sound too stupid for some of you. :) > > I'm a convinced converted FreeBSD user. I have been using it since a year > with version 2.5 and now with 3.1. I'm a little ISP and I'm only using my > boxes as web servers of our web pages. That's because I have find very hard > to understand and manage some things in this environment. As an example of > this I haven't give FTP access to other users but me there because I don't > know how to restrict space to FTP users and restrict them to their > directory only. I know this is something basic but at least to me that > came from other OS has been a hard change. I really like the system and in > fact my FreeBSD boxes are the only ones that always work and never had a > problem with them and that's great but I would like to have more > information on how todo do things for ISP daily activities. Another example > is that since my email runs on other systems it took me a lo t of time find > how to disable SMTP services because my system was used for relay for some > spammers. So When I was told about this from an anti spammer organization I > spend lot of time finding how to do that. Anyway some basic things are hard > to do but when I learn how then it is the best solution (no matter my > partener says his NT or MAcintosh servers are better because they are more > expensive)..... > > Do you know of some books or resources on the web (or not) where I can > learn how to do things for ISP services specifically. ?. Once, in another > list someone pointed me to this book from Cricket Liu, "Managing Internet > Information Services" they said that explain all this in Unix environment > but unfortunattely the book is out of print and I have been looking it > since January in Amazon B&N and a lot others without success. > > Could you give me your advice on resources to learn this?. > Or maybe do you have the book and would you like to sell it to me? ;) > > Thanks in advance. > > Jbiquez > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- David Knapp PC Network Specialist LMUSD 805 473-4390 ext 426 FreeBSD Newbie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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