Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:43:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Chad Albert <chadalbert@mchsi.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Sicco Miedema <s.miedema@home.nl> Subject: Re: a few questions, just out of curiosity... Message-ID: <20020808204101.F84785-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <007d01c23f21$52cecb30$51b41595@SPGCALBERTA>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Chad Albert wrote: > Here are some links I have collected along the way... > http://bsdvault.net/ > http://freebsd.rogness.net/ > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ > http://freebsdhowtos.com/ > http://www.daemonnews.org/new2bsd/ > http://freebsddiary.org/ > And of course there is always > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Don't know why he'd list the handbook last, but it's a great start! http://www.bsdforums.org and look for a local support group ("nerd cluster" hehe) at... http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#user > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sicco Miedema" <s.miedema@home.nl> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:11 PM > Subject: a few questions, just out of curiosity... > > > > Hello, > > > > I just built a FreeBSD mail/dhcp/firewall/samba etc. ( and after that i > > demolished the harddrive :-( Tomorrow i am going to reinstall a new > > harddrive and a new FreeBSD installation. I just had a few questions which > > would help me improve the new server: > > > > 1. Is it just me or is there more documentation available for Linux the > for > > FreeBSD (www.freebsddiary.org is of course a wealth of knowledge, but i > > was looking for a site like www.linuxdoc.org, yet I did not find anything > > using google) > > 1a. [stupid mode on] Why does FreeBSD seem more logical to me then Linux? > > [stupid mode off] > > 2. Are there any nice monitoring programs available? Like DU meter for > > Windows. (this one is just for coolness i was thinking of using SNORT for > IDS) > > 3. Is there a way to backup the complete server and restore it within 10 > > mins? Norton ghost would be perfect, but the server doesn't have a > > diskdrive or cd-rom. I tried to tar the whole harddrive, resulting in a > > complete chaos an a 3GB tar file... (which i tried to upload to a win2k > > machine, resulting in /var = full) > > > > And at last i would like to thank the people involved in developing > > FreeBSD. When i come home after a day of win2k server probs it's nice to > > see at least one server running within established parameters (that is > > without weird behavior) ;-) > > > > Sicco Miedema > > *This is the most stable computer in the world, as long as you don't run any software on it...* -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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