From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 22:20:39 2003 Return-Path: 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 0AD0D37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B62243F93 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C914F526C2; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:50:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:50:34 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Johnson David Message-ID: <20030719052034.GN11810@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200307161242.21245.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gWRamliw218YCZO9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307161242.21245.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended reading: FreeBSD for production server use X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:20:39 -0000 --gWRamliw218YCZO9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 16 July 2003 at 12:42:21 -0700, Johnson David wrote: > >> I too am looking for a resource which would tell me what the day to >> day tasks are for administering a system. What logs do I need to >> look in, what files do I need to clean, etc... I find a lot of books >> on administration and all talk about tools to be used, but I would >> also like to know what kind of schedule, files, need to be looked at >> regularly. That is where administration rubber meets the road. > > Try "Unix System Administration", from O'Reilly. It's a huge book but > it's very readable and covers FreeBSD. But it's not a "cookbook", in > that it won't give you recipes for success. You will need to apply the > principles you've learned by yourself. After all, every system is > different. Most people I know have a better opinion of "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein, published by Prentice Hall. It covers an older version of FreeBSD, but a lot of the material is still very relevant. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --gWRamliw218YCZO9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/GNUiIubykFB6QiMRAthnAJ9EJxduhWvAHb+FsDJ5MkmrGy7IYQCgizde qvjdoZOa/duM6sKDjcru71k= =UMLD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gWRamliw218YCZO9--