From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 11:21:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DEF16A4DA for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92FCB43D45 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:21:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 29553 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2006 11:21:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xgcCkTfN8z3eyHAj/AxD8Zt9k5FSn58sLkcVGR/xEUxKpS55tKPz4BBceqB+wHQ5zmfbZz1SebxuUfnOawFPpw+EIKr8+VdECWo03g7wW/WMRmqHAUFMflo4HLY0Hp/e+RpKL72FD9R47mS4hOS3D0naeKFdxwwxnjmiZLPY7Go= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?) (wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net@70.142.248.62 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2006 11:21:22 -0000 Message-ID: <44F96965.3030607@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:22:13 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:21:24 -0000 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. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/