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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:42:21 -0700
From:      Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
To:        Libby Charles-CCL044 <Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com>, "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recommended reading: FreeBSD for production server use
Message-ID:  <200307161242.21245.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
In-Reply-To: <AD31C7ED267AD411B55500D0B781E33D065CCAC7@il33exm02.wes.mot.com>

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> I too am looking for a resource which would tell me what the day to
> day tasks are for administering a system.  What logs do I need to
> look in, what files do I need to clean, etc...  I find a lot of books
> on administration and all talk about tools to be used, but I would
> also like to know what kind of schedule, files, need to be looked at
> regularly.  That is where administration rubber meets the road.

Try "Unix System Administration", from O'Reilly. It's a huge book but 
it's very readable and covers FreeBSD. But it's not a "cookbook", in 
that it won't give you recipes for success. You will need to apply the 
principles you've learned by yourself. After all, every system is 
different.

David


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