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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813256603321

Autore

Lucas Michael <1967->

Titolo

Absolute FreeBSD : the complete guide to FreeBSD / / by Michael W. Lucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : No Starch Press, c2008

ISBN

1-59327-221-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (748 p.)

Disciplina

004/.36

Soggetti

Internet service providers - Computer programs

Web servers - Computer programs

Client/server computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- Foreword by Robert N.M. Watson -- Introduction -- 1: Getting More Help -- 2: Installing Freebsd -- 3: Start Me Up! The Boot Process -- 4: Read This Before You Break Something Else! (Backup and Recovery) -- 5: Kernel Games -- 6: The Network -- 7: Securing Your System -- 8: Disks and Filesystems -- 9: Advanced Security Features -- 10: Exploring /etc -- 11: Making Your System Useful -- 12: Advanced Software Management -- 13: Upgrading Freebsd -- 14: The Internet Road Map: DNS -- 15: Small System Services -- 16: Spam, Worms, and Viruses (Plus Email, If You Insist) -- 17: Web and FTP Services -- 18: Disk Tricks with GEOM -- 19: System Performance and Monitoring -- 20: The Fringe of Freebsd -- 21: System (and Sysadmin) Panics and Crashes -- Afterword -- Some Interesting sysctl MIBS -- Index -- Updates.

Sommario/riassunto

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 toFreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition ofhis 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, filesystems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more, including coverage of how to: Use advanced security features like packet filtering, virtual machines, and host-based intrusion detection Build custom live FreeBSD CDs and bootable flash Manage network services and filesystems Use DNS and set up email, IMAP, web, and FTP services for both servers and clients Monitor your system with performance-testing and troubleshooting tools Run diskless systems Manage schedulers, remap shared libraries, and optimize your system for your hardware and your workload Build custom network appliances with embedded FreeBSD Implement redundant disks, even without special hardware Integrate FreeBSD-specific SNMP into your network management system. 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.