From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 14:19:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23614 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23598 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA01819 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00532; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:10:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Antonio Bemfica cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Book Recommendation ? 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, 11 Feb 1997, Antonio Bemfica wrote: > I am looking for a good Unix system administration book that also includes > references to FreeBSD specific topics. Is there such a thing? I am > comfortable with the basics most of the time, and can make my way around > some of the more advanced areas (I can compile a customised kernel, change > some sendmail rules, etc), so I don't want to get a beginner's guide, > eventhough there's a lot of basic stuff I don't know (just stumbled on the > 'which' command the other day!). I looked into a couple of books: The book "The Complete FreeBSD" is a addendum to these books that details FreeBSD-specific items. The Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org is an essential reference as well. > > - Essential System Administration 2nd Ed. (Aleen Frisch), published by > O'Reilly - no mention of FreeBSD at all (Linux is acknowledged) > > - Unix System Administration Handbook 2nd Ed. (Nemeth, etc) - it is in > back order at the local bookstore, but I have the first editon (1989) > and FreeBSD wasn't around then (or was it?) FreeBSD is mentioned once. It does target BSDi which is pretty close though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major