Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

[Robert C Wittig]

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. 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.
> 

I think that you misunderstood... mod_perl and mod_php can be compiled 
into Apache web server, though.

>    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?

I found 'AbsoluteBSD' by Michael Lucas useful. I also run OpenBSD on my 
Internet-exposed web and mail servers, and found 'Absolute OpenBSD' by 
Michael Lucas equally useful.



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