Re: Shell Games

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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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