From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 5: 8:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA4C37B6B9 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:08:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-117-39.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.117.39] helo=genisis) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14Nwyh-0006Fr-00; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:07:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:57:18 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com To: Assad Khan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Books regarding Network/System Administration In-Reply-To: <3A77F6BE.B5A26E0A@netzone.net.pk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Assad, I would highly recommend the Powertools book. It has all kinds of useful tips, tricks, utilities, scripts, and the hows of why things work the way they do. That and the 3 books you've already ordered will keep you busy for quite a while and on your way to guru-dom. If you enjoy the TCP/IP book, you'll really enjoy O'Reilly's Internet Core Protocols book. But that's more on the networking side rather than just straight system administration. Cheers, Dru On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Assad Khan wrote: > > Hi, > I installed FreeBSD 4.1 and its working fine. I am able to do > everything that I used to do in Linux. But I want to go deeper, so I went > to amazon.com and ordered the following books: > > Essential System Administration (O'Reilly) > TCP/IP System Administration (O'Reilly) > Learning Perl (O'Reilly) > > At one stage I was a bit confused, I had 2 books in front of me, UNIX > System Administration Handbook and Essential System Administration. Both > in my view address approximately the same issue, they have almost the > same number of pages and both received 4.5 stars in the overall reader > rating at amazon, but eventually, I went with O'Reilly's big name and > ordered Essential System administration. So someone who has read both the > books please comment on my decision, do I *need* the other book too? > > And anyone who has read UNIX power tools (O'Reilly) please kindly tell > me if I should buy it or not. And also recommend some other books that > could help me with acquiring System Administration skills. I have Greg's > VERY nice book (The Complete FreeBSD), but are there any other books > apart from the handbook that deal only with FreeBSD? > > Thanks in Advance for any feedback. > > P.S: I use my father's Credit Card and he has put a limit on my spending > so the last thing I want is to order something that I don't need. :-) > > -- > Assad Khan | assad.khan@usa.net > AIM: PAKHTOON 1 > ICQ: 14417800 > DALnet: Blast^RADIUS > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message