Absolute Freebsd

by Lucas, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9781593271510
• ISBN10: 1593271514
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: No Starch Pr

Summary

FreeBSD-the powerful, flexible, and free Unix-like operating system-is the preferred server for many enterprises. But it can be even trickier to use than either Unix or Linux, and harder still to master. Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; a true product of his love for FreeBSD and the support of the FreeBSD community. Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition covers installation, networking, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more. Whether you're just getting started with FreeBSD or you've been using it for years, you'll find this book to be the definitive guide to FreeBSD that you've been waiting for.

Author Biography

Michael W. Lucas is a network/security engineer with extensive experience working with high-availability systems. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Absolute BSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, and PGP & GPG, all from No Starch Press.

Table of Contents

Getting More Help	p. 19
Installing FreeBSD	p. 33
Start Me Up! The Boot Process	p. 61
Read This Before You Break Something Else! (Backup and Recovery)	p. 89
Kernel Games	p. 117
The Network	p. 145
Securing Your System	p. 177
Disks and Filesystems	p. 209
Advanced Security Features	p. 261
Exploring / Etc	p. 301
Making Your System Useful	p. 315
Advanced Software Management	p. 343
Upgrading FreeBSD	p. 371
The Internet Road Map: DNS	p. 411
Small System Services	p. 439
Spam, Worms, and Viruses (Plus Email, If You Insist)	p. 467
Web and FTP Services	p. 499
Disk Tricks with GEOM	p. 529
System Performance and Monitoring	p. 569
The Fringe of FreeBSD	p. 603
System (and Sysadmin) Panics and Crashes	p. 637
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