From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 14:22: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D8037B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.technaholics.com (12-218-133-12.client.mchsi.com [12.218.133.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A216A43E42 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chadalbert@mchsi.com) Received: from bedrock.hboc.com (hboc.com [139.177.224.128]) by www.technaholics.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g78LLo637095; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:21:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chadalbert@mchsi.com) Message-ID: <007d01c23f21$52cecb30$51b41595@SPGCALBERTA> From: "Chad Albert" To: , "Sicco Miedema" Received: from [149.21.180.81] by bedrock.hboc.com via smtpd (for [12.218.133.12]) with SMTP; 8 Aug 2002 21:21:50 UT References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020808225457.01ff6ac8@mail.home.nl> Subject: Re: a few questions, just out of curiosity... Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:19:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Here are some links I have collected along the way... http://bsdvault.net/ http://freebsd.rogness.net/ http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ http://freebsdhowtos.com/ http://www.daemonnews.org/new2bsd/ http://freebsddiary.org/ And of course there is always http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sicco Miedema" To: Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: a few questions, just out of curiosity... > Hello, > > I just built a FreeBSD mail/dhcp/firewall/samba etc. ( and after that i > demolished the harddrive :-( Tomorrow i am going to reinstall a new > harddrive and a new FreeBSD installation. I just had a few questions which > would help me improve the new server: > > 1. Is it just me or is there more documentation available for Linux the for > FreeBSD (www.freebsddiary.org is of course a wealth of knowledge, but i > was looking for a site like www.linuxdoc.org, yet I did not find anything > using google) > 1a. [stupid mode on] Why does FreeBSD seem more logical to me then Linux? > [stupid mode off] > 2. Are there any nice monitoring programs available? Like DU meter for > Windows. (this one is just for coolness i was thinking of using SNORT for IDS) > 3. Is there a way to backup the complete server and restore it within 10 > mins? Norton ghost would be perfect, but the server doesn't have a > diskdrive or cd-rom. I tried to tar the whole harddrive, resulting in a > complete chaos an a 3GB tar file... (which i tried to upload to a win2k > machine, resulting in /var = full) > > And at last i would like to thank the people involved in developing > FreeBSD. When i come home after a day of win2k server probs it's nice to > see at least one server running within established parameters (that is > without weird behavior) ;-) > > Sicco Miedema > *This is the most stable computer in the world, as long as you don't run > any software on it...* > > > 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