From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 11:38:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15918 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15911 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA01643; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:38:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Victor Meirans cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Victor Meirans wrote: > Well, I am thinking about buying some books on FreeBSD and network > administration and security as well. Could someone give me a clue about > "the best" books of this kind? Any recomendations? See the Handbook's Bibliography for a good list. I use Nemeth, et.al's "Unix System Administartion Handbook, 2nd. Ed." Great book, govers BSD/OS but has good general admin tips. For security, the various O'Reilly books should cover it in sufficient detail. > I already ordered "DNS & BIND" and was going to order "The Complete > FreeBSD", but it's released in 1996 and I am wondering is it still > "up-to-date"? The Complete FreeBSD covers 2.1.x, and for system setup, it could be called "out of date." But half of the thing is printed manpages, and there is some general-reference material in there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo