Keith Phipps wrote: > My questions really come down to this; I'll be working with 4.x and > 6.1 boxes. Are there any global issues with them I should be concerned > about, something you guys as admins have to deal with regularly.
I spend far more time on third party apps than the base system. Subscribe to the relevant mailinglists: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Read the advisories for the systems you maintain. > The > boss also said something that confused me, said I'd need to make the > builds and compile php, perl, and mysql into the Kernel. I've never done > much Kernel work (much, lets start with any) but it's always been my > understanding that with BSD if I wanted to install PHP, PERL, and MySQL > on a box, I'd just pkg_add it. I've never heard of it actually being > compiled in the kernel. /into/ the kernel? > Right now my biggest resources have to be google and the O'Reilly > book "Essential Sys. Admin." but I'd like to have a reference guide more > suited to only the FreeBSD platform. Any recommendations on this as well? For general purposes: The handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Other guides exist covering special issues, firewalling and stuff. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
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