From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 16:18:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA28665 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:18:31 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA28659 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:18:30 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA01159 ; Thu, 20 Jul 95 19:18:19 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sZ4dA-0004pHC; Thu, 20 Jul 95 19:03 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Todays dumb question... To: jorgense@sol.acs.uwosh.edu (Paul D. Jorgensen) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507202136.AA08046@uranus.acs.uwosh.edu> from "Paul D. Jorgensen" at Jul 20, 95 04:36:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2071 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Paul D. Jorgensen wrote: > I have see several mentions on this book: > > > Okay, I bought Nemeth, the red book, and a light is slowly starting > > but didn't find any references to it in the FAQ's. Could someone tell > me what exactly is this book? Thanks much, Paul _Unix System Administration Handbook_ second edition by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R Hein 1995 Prentice Hall PTR ISBN 0-13-151051-7 from the forward: This is not a nice, neat book for a nice, clean world. It's a nasty book for a nasty world... The fact is that system administration *is* difficult... This book will help you tune your network to maximize throughput, minimiz delay, and avoid single points of failure. It will also give you hints on how to let the good guys in while keeping the bad guys out. --Eric Allman and Marshal Kirk McKusick, August 1994 from me: If you know everything there is to know about BSD, hey, write a better book. If you don't know much about BSD, you want this book. It will answer most of the first couple of hundred questions you are going to have if you are new to BSD. It is 779 pages of answers and it comes with a CDROM full of goodies. It has more readable, findable, immediately useful information than any other two or three books I found in many trips to several "computer" book stores. Table of Contents BASIC ADMINISTRATION 1) Where to Start 2) Booting and Shutting Down 3) Rootly Powers 4) The Filesystem 5) Controlling Processes 6) Adding New Users 7) Devices and Drivers 8) Serial Devices 9) Adding a Disk 10) Periodic Processes 11) Backups 12) Syslog and Log Files 13) Configuring the Kernel NETWORKING 14) TCP/IP and Routing 15) Network hardware 16) The Domain Name System 17) The Network File System 18) Sharing System Files 19) SLIP and PPP 20) The Internet 21) Electronic Mail 22) Network Management 23) Security BUNCH O' STUFF 24) Usenet News 25 Printing and Imaging 26) Disk Space Management 27) Hardware Maintenance 28) Accounting 29) Performance Analysis 30) UUCP 31) Daemons 32) Policy and Politics