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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:39:54 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: book suggestions
Message-ID:  <20020213053954.GA970@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020212204428.05877288@mail.Go2France.com>
References:  <20020212215334.GA24649@moo.holy.cow> <5.1.0.14.2.20020212204428.05877288@mail.Go2France.com>

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:47:39PM -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> >I have the need to administer to a FreeBSD computer.  Is there a
> >particularly good book on FreeBSD, as far as customizing BASH
> 
> man bash
> 
> Learning the bash shell, Newham & Roseblatt
> 
> FreeBSD Unleashed, Urban & Tiemann
> 
The above is pretty good and up to date, but you should bear in mind
it is written with an eye to the future release of FreeBSD 5 (sometime
later this year I believe) - which appears to have a lot of changes
in it. This is not really a problem, since most of the time the authors
make this clear and you get information relevant to releases available
now as well. Occasionally they forget to do this though, and as seems
all too common these days with technical books there are the inevitable
typos, mystifying sentences and repetition of information. However I
am being churlish, overall a recommended book. 

And don't forgey the Handbook which comes with the distribution, and is
in an on-going state of update.

> > and performing
> >common system configuration tasks?
> 
> Unix System Administration, Nemeth et al is quite BSDish
> 
> System Administration, Frisch is useful
> 
> Len
> 
> 
-- 
Regards
Cliff



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