From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 13:43:31 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 5183716A4DE for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:43:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from sys34.mail.msu.edu (sys34.mail.msu.edu [35.9.75.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D7743D45 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:43:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from jerrymc by sys34.mail.msu.edu with local (Exim 4.52 #1) id 1GJVmU-0003It-BW; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:43:30 -0400 References: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> From: "Jerold McAllister" To: Keith Phipps Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:43:18 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Virus: None found by Clam AV Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 13:43:31 -0000 Keith Phipps writes: > 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 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. You are are right in the case on those utilities. They do not go 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? The FreeBSD handbook online and hopefully installed is your best bet. ////jerry > > Thanks for your time, > -Keith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >