Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:43:18 -0400 From: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Keith Phipps <keith.phipps@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin Message-ID: <E1GJVmU-0003It-BW@sys34.mail.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com> References: <44F95580.5030603@gmail.com>
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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" >
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