From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 13:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11719 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from digital.netvoyage.net (root@digital.netvoyage.net [205.162.154.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11709 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bogawa@localhost) by digital.netvoyage.net (8.6.13/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA17665; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:13:48 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:13:48 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Andrzej Szydlo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Administration 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 Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Andrzej Szydlo wrote: > > > Where couid I buy books on BSD administration? > > At yopur local bookstore. You may want to check a local University's > bookstore if one is near you. I was wondering if this was your problem (mail order from poland?). This I don't know about (international mail order of books from poland). > > Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein, > > ``Unix System Administration Handbook'', Prentice-Hall, 1995 > > Second Edition > > This is a good book. As expected, the procedures don't match 100%, but > supplemented with "Instaling and Running FreeBSD" from Walnut creek, > should be enough for you. > > You will want the ISBN number; most bookstores willl allow you to order > books by ISBN. I'm not near it right now, or I'dgive it to you. Check > the page below. ISBN 0-13-151051-7 I have my copy right here. :) > > I'd be also grateful for any other suggestions. > > Check out "Books" under "Documentation" on www.freebsd.org. > > > If some answers might sound like advertising, please send it directly to > > me, not to the list. > > Not advertising, but emphatic support! :-) Indeed. Personally I'd toss in a perl book if you don't know it and want to know (as someone said, it's a Swiss-Army knife/chainsaw). This covers Perl4 only, so you may want to wait for a perl5 book (one's supposed to come out RSN): Programming Perl ISBN 0-937175-64-1 > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at..