Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:57:18 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Assad Khan <assadk@netzone.net.pk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Books regarding Network/System Administration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101310753350.10042-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3A77F6BE.B5A26E0A@netzone.net.pk>
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Hi Assad, I would highly recommend the Powertools book. It has all kinds of useful tips, tricks, utilities, scripts, and the hows of why things work the way they do. That and the 3 books you've already ordered will keep you busy for quite a while and on your way to guru-dom. If you enjoy the TCP/IP book, you'll really enjoy O'Reilly's Internet Core Protocols book. But that's more on the networking side rather than just straight system administration. Cheers, Dru On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Assad Khan wrote: > > Hi, > I installed FreeBSD 4.1 and its working fine. I am able to do > everything that I used to do in Linux. But I want to go deeper, so I went > to amazon.com and ordered the following books: > > Essential System Administration (O'Reilly) > TCP/IP System Administration (O'Reilly) > Learning Perl (O'Reilly) > > At one stage I was a bit confused, I had 2 books in front of me, UNIX > System Administration Handbook and Essential System Administration. Both > in my view address approximately the same issue, they have almost the > same number of pages and both received 4.5 stars in the overall reader > rating at amazon, but eventually, I went with O'Reilly's big name and > ordered Essential System administration. So someone who has read both the > books please comment on my decision, do I *need* the other book too? > > And anyone who has read UNIX power tools (O'Reilly) please kindly tell > me if I should buy it or not. And also recommend some other books that > could help me with acquiring System Administration skills. I have Greg's > VERY nice book (The Complete FreeBSD), but are there any other books > apart from the handbook that deal only with FreeBSD? > > Thanks in Advance for any feedback. > > P.S: I use my father's Credit Card and he has put a limit on my spending > so the last thing I want is to order something that I don't need. :-) > > -- > Assad Khan | assad.khan@usa.net > AIM: PAKHTOON 1 > ICQ: 14417800 > DALnet: Blast^RADIUS > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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