Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs.

MICHAEL LUCAS is one of only about 200 FreeBSD committers, a FreeBSD columnist for the O'Reilly Network, and a contributor to Sys Admin Magazine. He has been a pet wrangler, a librarian, a security consultant, and now works as a network engineer and systems administrator. Find out more on his website at www.absolutebsd.com.

CONTENTS

Chapter 0: Introduction

Chapter 1: Installation

Chapter 2: Getting More Help

Chapter 3: Read this before you break something else!

Chapter 4: Kernel Games

Chapter 5: Networking

Chapter 6: Upgrading FreeBSD

Chapter 7: Securing Your System

Chapter 8: Advanced Security Features

Chapter 9: Too Much Information About /etc

Chapter 10: Making Your System Useful

Chapter 11: Advanced Software Management

Chapter 12: Finding Hosts

Chapter 13: Managing Small Network Services

Chapter 14: Email Services

Chapter 15: Web and FTP Services

Chapter 16: File Systems

Chapter 17: RAID

Chapter 18: System Performance

Chapter 19: Now what's it doing?

Chapter 20: System (and Administrator) Crashes and Panics

Chapter 21: Desktop FreeBSD

Afterword

Appendix A: Some Useful Sysctl MIBs