Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:41:48 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4BSD SMM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012090033030.36482-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012090015110.26675-100000@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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Tim McMillen wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Hi, I recently aquired the 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual out of > the Usenix/Oreilly set. I was wondering how much of it is applicable to > FreeBSD, and how much of it is too out of date to be useful. Some > obviously are not like the chapter on installing on architectures like the > HP9000. I'm especially interested in the chapters on fsck and FFS. How > applicable are they? I don't want to study something that is incorrect. > Could someone that has it or knows it well comment on what chapters to > avoid perhaps? I would really appreciate it. Thanks, > > Tim Well, I have not read the book... But I can tell you that fsck and FFS haven't radically changed across 4.4BSD implementations. Stay away from architecture dependent sections (except for possibly the i386 :-), as that's where the majority of changes take place. Each OS varies only very slightly at administration level (/etc/rc.d vs /usr/local/etc/rc.d, some slight differences in syntax for system commands...). A good handbook will tell you 10% of what you need to know in the subject area. Leave the rest up to the man pages :-) You'll never find a printed UNIX reference that is 100% "correct". :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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