From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 21:01:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3253B16A41F for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:01:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AB543D58 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:00:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.101] (adsl-66-140-61-101.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.140.61.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF2F3FC37 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:00:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:00:26 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0ILK009VC0K1DD6B@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> References: <0ILK009VC0K1DD6B@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:01:00 -0000 --On August 20, 2005 6:02:18 PM -1000 Kent Hauser wrote: > > I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 > years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP > boxes. > > Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm > talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of > /var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, > how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in "fixit disk" mode, > how to > backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why > XP is "professional", etc. > First I'll say a prayer for you. Having been a long time Windows expert and now a competent journeyman on *nix, I can tell you that your learning curve will be high. I'm afraid I don't know any books that I can recommend. I can tell you that your biggest frustration will be the strong emphasis on the GUI for management and the almost complete lack of the tools you're used to using (find, grep, awk, sed, cut, tail, vi, etc.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/