From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 13:32:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AAE337B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FB443F85 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:1784 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19csB5-0003s1-5t; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:43:03 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <36HSTLHS>; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:43:20 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 36G39AA4; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:42:42 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Libby Charles-CCL044 , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:42:21 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307161242.21245.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19csB5-0003s1-5t*lPKJzSY8Ejg* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Recommended reading: FreeBSD for production server use X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:32:56 -0000 > 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