teach yourself freebsd in 24 hours (2003)

[...]... Passwords 243 What Makes a Good Password? 243 Be Aware of Suspicious Activity 244 Remote Login Issues 244 Telnet 244 rlogin 245 SSH 245 Contents xiii Configuring a Basic Firewall 246 Creating Firewall Rules 246 Enabling the Firewall 248 Securing the Console 249 Security Holes in FreeBSD ... designed to teach the average computer user how to work effectively with the FreeBSD operating system in 24 lessons—each approximately one hour in length By the time you have finished this book, you will have a good basic understanding of how to perform most common tasks in FreeBSD, including such things as setting up a basic Web or email server, basic FreeBSD administration, basic security, installing software,... distribution of Linux later on • FreeBSD is a complete operating system Linux is a kernel with a set of utilities included with it: Different Linux vendors have differing opinions on what should be included with a Linux distribution Of course, if something you want isn’t included, you can always download it off the Internet • FreeBSD is maintained by a core team As such, what ends up in a FreeBSD release... Exercises 213 HOUR 13 Connecting FreeBSD to an Existing Network 215 The Network Interface Device 216 Configuring Network Settings with sysinstall 219 Testing Network Connectivity with ping 221 Summary 222 Q&A 222 xii Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours Workshop 224 Quiz 224 Quiz Answers 225 Exercises... probably find the rewards of FreeBSD to be well worth the effort put into learning it Hopefully, this book will make it a little easier to learn about this powerful operating system Now, let’s get started in Hour 1 by learning about some of the basics of what FreeBSD is and why you might want to use it PART I Introduction to FreeBSD Hour 1 Planning for and Preparing to Install FreeBSD 2 Installing FreeBSD. ..x Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours Controlling the Printers 159 Queue Status 160 Disabling the Queue 160 Enabling the Queue and Restarting the Printer 161 Restarting the Daemon 161 Cleaning the Queue 161 Changing the Priority of Print Jobs 161 Abbreviating Commands 162 Summary ... with FreeBSD Planning for and Preparing to Install FreeBSD What Is FreeBSD Being Used for? Because the source code for FreeBSD is freely available and FreeBSD comes with a large number of programming tools, what you can do with FreeBSD is really only limited by your imagination and skill as a programmer However, without having any programming skill, here are some of things that you can do with FreeBSD. .. graphical user interface in Windows need to be performed from the command line on FreeBSD often by editing a text-based configuration file However, the command-line interface does have several advantages over Windows graphical user interface • Once you’ve learned the command line, it can often be much faster than navigating through Windows graphical tools • Not having a graphical interface running means... Operating Systems You might be wondering how FreeBSD compares to other operating systems In this section, we will look at how FreeBSD compares to several other operating systems, including other flavors of UNIX and Windows FreeBSD Compared to Linux Most people today have at least heard of Linux, even if they do not have a very good idea of what it is Linux is a clone, or “work alike,” of the UNIX operating... Basic Tour of FreeBSD 4 Basic Shell Use HOUR 1 Planning for and Preparing to Install FreeBSD Before you can use FreeBSD, you need to install it on your computer’s hard disk In this hour, we will discuss the background information needed to make the best decision about how to install FreeBSD Of course, the first thing you might want is a little bit of background on FreeBSD What Is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a . East 96th St., Indianapolis, Indiana, 4 6240 USA Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Michael Urban Brian Tiemann FreeBSD  00 4245 FM 11/25/02 1:16 PM Page i Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD  in 24 Hours Copyright. 4245 FM 11/25/02 1:16 PM Page v HOUR 2Installing FreeBSD 19 Beginning the FreeBSD Installation 20 sysinstall 21 Navigating in sysinstall 21 Hard Disk Partitioning 22 FreeBSD s Hard Disk Naming. ix 00 4245 FM 11/25/02 1:16 PM Page ix x Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours Controlling the Printers 159 Queue Status 160 Disabling the Queue 160 Enabling the Queue and Restarting the Printer