Re: Shell Games

From: Jeff Lewis (jlewis1957_at_netscape.net)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:13:52 -0500
To: d3javu1978@yahoo.com (Me), freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Me <d3javu1978@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > Hi,
    > I would suggest reading Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas,
    > he covers pretty much every question you asked in
    > great detail. Building firewalls with IPFILTER,
    > Installing Apache, diffrent kernel operation modes,
    > file system security using chflags and other utilities.
    > Different shells are there for flexibility more then any thing,
    > it just depends on what you like and how you plan to
    > use your system. Here is a link that explains shells
    > in more detail

    I currently have "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. It's the 3rd edition and the disks inside say that they are v4.0 from March 2000. It has a section on Firewalling and IP Aliasing.

    >http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/

    JUST what I was looking for! Will read thoroughly.

    >
    >Scripting languages like PERL and Bash serve diffrent
    >purposes. I do alot of Bash scripting to automate alot
    >of day to day task, the possibilities are endless
    >using a scripting language such as bash.
    >If you're interested, a great book is UNIX Shell
    >Programing by Stephen Kochan, Patrick Wood.

    Thanks one more time. I will work with the book "Learning the bash Shell" and if I become adept at this, will move on to this scripting.

    Thanks for the leg up!

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