Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

[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 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
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