Re: Must-Have Administration Tools?

[Glenn English <ghe () richeyrentals com>]

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On Monday 10 May 2004 12:19 pm, Andrew Smith wrote:
> I am considering putting a FreeBSD machine onto the internet and
> offering out free SSH accounts, mainly to give myself first hand
> experience at server administration.
> I'm not new to BSD, but i'm no where near good at it,
> so my question is are: What are the 'must have' have
> security/administration/monitoring/general tools or documents that i
> install or should read before doing so?
> I accept that my server could easily be 'cracked' during my its time
> connected to the internet, this does not particularly bother me, i just
> want to learn..

I was in a similar situation a while back, except that I knew nothing about 
either *nix or networking. Webmin, vi, man, and a shelf of O'Reilly books 
got me to the point where, when I shoot myself in the foot, I can usually 
tell what caliber the bullet is :-)

The Webmnin GUI let me do things I didn't know existed. Then I could figure 
out what I just did with a text editor and some reading.

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Glenn English
glenn2 () richeyrentals com
  
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