Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:08:32 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: loony <loonybomber@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for BSD Unix Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD & BSD Books Message-ID: <20080428220832.GA49086@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <357988.47182.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <357988.47182.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:10:45PM -0700, loony wrote: >=20 > Overall, Absolute FreeBSD boosted my confidence/competence but as my > only printed Unix/Linux/BSD resource although it is not the "be one > and end all" resource to FreeBSD as I was hoping for, particularly > when it comes to slightly more advanced topics as building a > production LAMP server. I have the budget for another book.=20 Configuring a ?AMP server is largely not really OS specific (apart from things like firewalling). The AMP part should work on all UNIX-like systems. Of course FreeBSD has ports, which makes installation of the software easier. Some searching on the internet is certain to give you lots of tutorials. > This recommendation would be for a FreeBSD novice user. If they > didn't know how to script and had a choice between BSD UNIX Toolbox > and a book about how to script, what would they be better off getting? Depends on the persons other exerience. I switched to FreeBSD after having used Slackware Linux for several years. With the Handbook and the manual pages, I fealt at home straight away. For novices, I would teach them system administration first, and scripting later. > On that note, does anyone have recommendations for a freebsd > orientated beginners guide to scripting and using scripts to manage a > freebsd box and common systems/services/daemons? There is a lot of usefull documentation included with FreeBSD, starting with the Handbook and FAQ. Look in /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books Daemons belonging to the base system or available via ports come with a control script in (/usr/local)/etc/rc.d. There is no need to write your own, unless you want to contribute a new port, which is not really a job for a novice. However, one can learn a lot by studying the already available scripts and the infrastructure that supports them.=20 I've also found the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/] usefull, although one has to be carefull of bash-specific features not supported by FreeBSD's /bin/sh. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgWSuAACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXXpgCgmICIEKXz6wCf9hxyaTwlGbEr i8AAn2gpoQGV/Z49pQ7xbTbCuZskOZ2f =jCKH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--
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