Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:22:13 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin Message-ID: <44F96965.3030607@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> References: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com>
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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/
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