FreeBSD 6 Unleashed

DESCRIPTION

FreeBSD is extremely robust and powers some of the largest internet sites in world including Yahoo!. FreeBSD 6 Unleashed provides complete coverage of everything you need to know to use FreeBSD to its full potential, including coverage of FreeBSD 6.0. This edition includes updated coverage of Apache, MySQL and Sendmail, as well as added coverage of PowerPC support for Macintosh G3 and G4 platforms. This is the most up to date, comprehensive reference on the marker covering FreeBSD 6.0. Table of Contents 1 What is FreeBSD? 9 2 Installing FreeBSD 23 3 Advanced installation tasks 67 4 Booting and shutting down FreeBSD 85 5 Working with the X Window system 99 6 Working with applications 125 7 Advanced X11 configuration 163 8 Working with the shell 207 9 Customizing the shell 241 10 Shell programming 261 11 Introduction to Perl programming 307 12 The FreeBSD filesystem 335 13 Users, groups, and permissions 363 14 System configuration and startup scripts 393 15 Performance monitoring, process control, and job automation 413 16 Installing additional software 431 17 Printing 459 18 Kernel configuration 493 19 Keeping up to date with FreeBSD 511 20 Adding hard disk storage 539 21 FreeBSD survival guide 561 22 Principles of TCP/IP networking 591 23 Configuring basic networking services 619 24 Networking with PPP and 802.11 637 25 Configuring email services 653 26 Configuring a Web server 693 27 Configuring an FTP server 727 28 Configuring an Internet gateway 741 29 Configuring a database server 759