Recommended reading: FreeBSD for production server use

[Johnson David]

> I too am looking for a resource which would tell me what the day to
> day tasks are for administering a system.  What logs do I need to
> look in, what files do I need to clean, etc...  I find a lot of books
> on administration and all talk about tools to be used, but I would
> also like to know what kind of schedule, files, need to be looked at
> regularly.  That is where administration rubber meets the road.

Try "Unix System Administration", from O'Reilly. It's a huge book but 
it's very readable and covers FreeBSD. But it's not a "cookbook", in 
that it won't give you recipes for success. You will need to apply the 
principles you've learned by yourself. After all, every system is 
different.

David