From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 21:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724F437B402 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16as96-0002A6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:39:56 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 670EE13040 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:39:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id C38B622590; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:39:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:39:54 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: book suggestions Message-ID: <20020213053954.GA970@raggedclown.net> References: <20020212215334.GA24649@moo.holy.cow> <5.1.0.14.2.20020212204428.05877288@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020212204428.05877288@mail.Go2France.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message