Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/2/06, Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: >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?

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
tember 02, 2006 2:57 AM Subject: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin > 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

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Jerold McAllister
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 Sla

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Robert C Wittig
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 mak

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread ke han
Keith, welcome to the party!!! 1 - getting a solid handle on using installing/config/upgrading ports is key... 2 - the harder step is being able to "rebuild world" and possibly make changes to the "kernel" config. 3 - differences in config files and management between 4.x and 6.1 is a bit wi

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Erik Nørgaard
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. I spend far more time on third party apps than the base system.

Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Keith Phipps
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 fairl