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Informationen zum Autor Dru is an instructor at Marketbridge Technologies in Ottawa and the maintainer of the Open Protocol Resource. In her non-existent spare time, you can find her shooting Remic's Rapids or cycling through Gatineau Park. Klappentext In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users. Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of some of today's largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system, then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily stable and flexible, BSD also offers plenty of fertile ground for creative, time-saving tweaks and tricks, and yes, even the chance to have some fun."Fun?" you ask. Perhaps "fun" wasn't covered in the manual that taught you to install BSD and administer it effectively. But BSD Hacks, the latest in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, offers a unique set of practical tips, tricks, tools--and even fun--for administrators and power users of BSD systems.BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and getting more done, with fewer resources. You'll take advantage of the tools and concepts that make the world's top Unix users more productive. Rather than spending hours with a dry technical document learning what switches go with a command, you'll learn concrete, practical uses for that command.The book begins with hacks to customize the user environment. You'll learn how to be more productive in the command line, timesaving tips for setting user-defaults, how to automate long commands, and save long sessions for later review. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas: * Customizing the User Environment * Dealing with Files and Filesystems * The Boot and Login Environments * Backing Up * Networking Hacks * Securing the System * Going Beyond the Basics * Keeping Up-to-Date * Grokking BSD If you want more than your average BSD user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--BSD Hacks is a must-have. This book will turn regular users into power users and system administrators into super system administrators. "O'Reilly's Hacks series of titles really does present an exemplary model for quality documentation, and this BSD focused work is certainly no exception." Linux User & Developer - Issue 42 (Classic title) Zusammenfassung This provides a set of practical tips! tricks and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems. It takes a creative approach to saving time and accomplishing more with fewer resources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Credits Preface Chapter 1: Customizing the User Environment Chapter 2: Dealing with Files and Filesystems Chapter 3: The Boot and Login Environments Chapter 4: Backing Up Chapter 5: Networking Hacks Chapter 6: Securing the System Chapter 7: Going Beyond the Basics Chapter 8: Keeping Up-to-Date Chapter 9: Grokking BSD ...
List of contents
Credits
Preface
Chapter 1: Customizing the User Environment
Chapter 2: Dealing with Files and Filesystems
Chapter 3: The Boot and Login Environments
Chapter 4: Backing Up
Chapter 5: Networking Hacks
Chapter 6: Securing the System
Chapter 7: Going Beyond the Basics
Chapter 8: Keeping Up-to-Date
Chapter 9: Grokking BSD
