From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 17 12:30:41 2003 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 1804437B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from exgw2.lumeta.com (exgw2.lumeta.com [65.198.68.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A3143F3F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com (h65-198-68-133.lumeta.com [65.198.68.133]) by exgw2.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D15037385F; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:30:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D024E1084E; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:30:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from lumeta.com (unknown [209.223.209.3]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E2B1084D; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:30:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E514676.F78DE630@lumeta.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:30:46 -0500 From: Tom Limoncelli Organization: Lumeta Corp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ARL Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FREE BSD References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030213153706.00aa0c60@pop.telcoman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I agree with people's recommendations so far, such as Unleashed and the Handbook, but I'd like to take a second to plug a book that I co-wrote: "The Practice of System and Network Administration" by Limoncelli & Hogan. It isn't about FreeBSD specifically, it's about the best practices and policies for large sites no matter what OS you are using: from how to build a good email infrastructure, how to manage your boss, write security policies that get followed, plan a budget, hire and fire sysadmins, and so on. (the first half is all technical, the second half is all operational and organizational). It's been well-received in the open source community, most likely because it has a "how to convince your boss to adopt open source" section :-). Peter Salus in Usenix ;login: has mentioned it favorably a few times. For more information, go to http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com --Tom Limoncelli ARL wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm involved with a project to establish several Retail ISP's using BSD > software and systems. I'm looking for some excellent engineering books > and manuals for staff education and training. Would you have any > recommendations ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message