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<Brennen> A while ago I had a part-time job as a sysadmin, and needed to learn FreeBSD.  Started with [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The FreeBSD Handbook]. Also useful are the [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi FreeBSD Man Pages].

* [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier The FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy]
* [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel] - [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html The configuration file]
* [http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/ freebsd-hardware (archives)]
* [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-introduction.html User Management]
* [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pw&sektion=8 pw(8)]

Mail:

* [http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html Setting up IMAP in FreeBSD]
* [http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html FreeBSD as a secure mail server using sendmail and imap-uw]
* [http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/UWLoginDisabled Squirrelmail wiki: UWLoginDisabled] - try using port 993 before you go to greater efforts.
* [http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html Using maildir format]
* [http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html maildir(5)]

Security:

* [http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html FreeBSD Security HOWTO]
* [http://www.acme.com/firewall.html A simple firewall howto]
* [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2/ ''Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition''], Brent Chapman and Elizabeth Zwicky, ISBN 1-56592-871-7.

Archiving and backups:

* [http://surf.ap.seikei.ac.jp/~nakano/dump-restore/dump-restore-mini-HOWTO.en.html Backing up with dump and restore on Linux mini-HOWTO] (good, but 4 years old)
* [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/23/FreeBSD_Basics.html ONLamp.com: Backing up files with Tar]
* [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html RAID]
* [http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200110/howto_backup.html Backing up a Windows machine from FreeBSD].

* [http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/Pictures.html Pictures of SCSI Connectors]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://www.freebsddiary.org/ The FreeBSD Diary]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://www.netadmintools.com/art52.html Simple multi-tape backup with tar]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://www.netadmintools.com/ netadmintools.com]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20040408/index.html Toms' Hardware Guide Mass Storage]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html rsync examples]

<[[Brennen]]> [http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-December/004412.html "@ERROR: auth failed on module"]