Absolute Bsd: The Ultimate Guide To Freebsd

Your guide to FreeBSD,the powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system. FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs.

Table of Contents
Chapter 0: Introduction
Chapter 1: Installation
Chapter 2: Getting More Help
Chapter 3: Read this before you break something else!
Chapter 4: Kernel Games
Chapter 5: Networking
Chapter 6: Upgrading FreeBSD
Chapter 7: Securing Your System
Chapter 8: Advanced Security Features
Chapter 9: Too Much Information About /etc
Chapter 10: Making Your System Useful
Chapter 11: Advanced Software Management
Chapter 12: Finding Hosts
Chapter 13: Managing Small Network Services
Chapter 14: Email Services
Chapter 15: Web and FTP Services
Chapter 16: File Systems
Chapter 17: RAID
Chapter 18: System Performance
Chapter 19: Now what's it doing?
Chapter 20: System (and Administrator) Crashes and Panics
Chapter 21: Desktop FreeBSD Afterword
Appendix A: Some Useful Sysctl MIBs

About the Author
Michael Lucas is one of only about 200 FreeBSD committers, a FreeBSD columnist for the O'Reilly Network, and a contributor to Sys Admin Magazine. He has been a pet wrangler, a librarian, a security consultant, and now works as a network engineer and systems administrator.