Keith, welcome to the party!!!
1 - getting a solid handle on using installing/config/upgrading ports
is key...
2 - the harder step is being able to "rebuild world" and possibly
make changes to the "kernel" config.
3 - differences in config files and management between 4.x and 6.1 is
a bit wide, but well documented.
The above are well covered in the handbook and there are some good
howtos you can search for as well.
As to your boss's mention of integrating PHP, MySQL "into the
kernel".. I'm pretty sure you will only need to use the ports
installs of these apps ;-)
For server deamons (not GUI stuff), FreeBSD is the easiest game in town.
ke han
On Sep 2, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Keith Phipps wrote:
Good Day,
My name is Keith and I"ve just been promoted to our Unix
SysAdmin at work. I'll be working with a team of guys in the Ops
department but the majority are Windows Admins. I'm not completely
lost when it comes to using *nix, I use it as my Desktop and know
Slackware and Ubuntu fairly well. I've installed FreeBSD a few
times on servers, but that's about the extent of my server
knoweledge and BSD.
My duties in the beginning are not going to be that complex,
I'll be building out boxes, racking them, health checks, running
backups, generating keys, etc.. However, soon after my promotion
date (11th of September I start) I'll be given more and more boxes
to manage. Most of our infastructure is built on BSD, so I'm going
to have upwards of 40 appliances to manage and maintain.
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. 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.
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?
Thanks for your time,
-Keith
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