From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 7:21: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us (intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us [209.129.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC9F150EE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us) Received: from luciamar.k12.ca.us (intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us [209.129.95.252]) by intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16493; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <377A286B.939742D@luciamar.k12.ca.us> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:23:39 -0700 From: David Knapp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Biquez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd for ISP Resources. References: <3.0.6.32.19990630083540.008d4310@intranet.com.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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