From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 20 15: 1:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.WorldMediaCo.com (mail.omaha.com [63.64.101.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68A637BA52 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jogorman@worldmediaco.com) Received: from elwood.net ([63.64.101.10]) by mail1.WorldMediaCo.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-55573U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:27:23 -0600 Message-ID: <38D6ADD2.36E224B8@elwood.net> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:01:38 -0600 From: Jim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Nickelsen Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BSD books (was: What result would *you* like from the merger?) References: <38CE713C.F1623E3E@nettaxi.com> <20000319151722.F391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > > > Any input on what you'd loke to see in the book is welcome. > > Mail configuration. Not a rewrite of the bat book, but perhaps some > sendmail examples (with pointers into the bat book, of course). Some > information about other MTAs (Postfix, Exim, Qmail). Now, this is just me, and I am no way thinking I know how to write a good book, or what it takes to make one good. I just read allot. I would think that information about setting up a MTA would not directly be relevant to a book on Advanced BSD administration. There are so many Unix books out there in the world that give a little bit of information about so many different topics that they can go into detail in none. Then there are others that directly talk about one subject, cover is completely and answer all your questions. My self, and this is strictly personal opinion, I prefer the second type. I would like to see a BSD admin book that goes into the hard-core details about the system, and only pertains to BSD. BSD kernal config, BSD performance tuning, BSD advanced networking (IPsec, IPv6, etc), BSD disk layout for best performance, BSD boot script tweaking, BSD upgrade processes, etc. Really, I think that anything not pertaining to BSD would be unneeded as there is more then likely many books that cover those same topics. The perfect BSD admin book would pick up where "the complete freebsd" leaves off, and go into great detail about BSD specific issues. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message