Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #539473 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 427 pages

Review
"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)

From the Publisher
Looking for a unique set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems? From hacks to customize the user environment to networking, securing the system, and optimization, BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and accomplishing more with fewer resources. If you want more than the average BSD user--to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools--this book is a must-have.

About the Author
Dru is an instructor at Marketbridge Technologies in Ottawa and the maintainer of the Open Protocol Resource. Dru writes the FreeBSD Basics column for ONLamp. She's been a FreeBSD advocate since a Google search led her to freebsd.org back in 1997. By day, she pokes about her systems and writes of her findings. By night, she teaches the fundamentals of networking, routing, and security. Yes, she works through the long Canadian winter so she can enjoy summer days filled with camping, cycling, hiking, and kayaking.

Customer Reviews

Good, short read
This book covers a lot of topics in short, many of the hacks are user contributed. Listing all the topics here would take too much space. This book would be ideal for a new system admin. Most of the system admin features that a linux user migrating to BSD is after are covered in this book.

Great!
If you want quick solutions to BSD problems....then this is the book for you. It is by no means a big reference text. You should consider FreeBSD unleashed or Absolute BSD for that.