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 FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world's busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

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1 Introduction

         1.1 What is FreeBSD!

         1.2 About the FreeBSD Project

2 Installing FreeBSD

         2.1 Hardware Requirements

         2.2 Pre-installation Tasks

         2.3 Starting the Installation

         2.4 Introducing Sysinstall

         2.5 Allocating Disk Space

         2.6 Choosing What to Install

         2.7 Choosing Your Installation Media

         2.8 Committing to the Installation

         2.9 Post-installation

         2.10 Troubleshooting

         2.11 Advanced Installation Guide

         2.12 Preparing Your Own Installation Media

3 UNIX Basics

         3.1 Virtual Consoles and Terminals

         3.2 Permissions

         3.3 Directory Structure

         3.4 Disk Organization

         3.5 Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

         3.6 Processes

         3.7 Daemons, Signals, and Killing Processes

         3.8 Shells

         3.9 Text Editors

         3.10 Devices and Device Nodes

         3.11 Binary Formats

         

4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

         4.1 Overview of Software Installation

         4.2 Finding Your Application

         4.3 Using the Packages System

         4.4 Using the Ports Collection 

         4.5 Post-installation Activities

         4.6 Dealing with Broken Ports

5 The X Window System

         5.1 Understanding X

         5.2 Installing X11

         5.3 X11 Configuration

         5.4 Using Fonts in X11

         5.5 The X Display Manager

         5.6 Desktop Environments

II. Common Tasks

 

6 Desktop Applications

         6.1 Browsers

         6.2 Productivity

         6.3 Document Viewers

         6.4 Finance

         

7 Multimedia

         7.1 Setting Up the Sound Card

         7.2 MP3 Audio

         7.3 Video Playback

         7.4 Setting Up TV Cards

         7.5 Image Scanners

8 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

         8.1 Why Build a Custom Kernel?

         8.2 Finding the System Hardware

         8.3 Kernel Drivers, Subsystems, and Modules

         8.4 Building and Installing a Custom Kernel

         8.5 The Configuration File

         8.6 If Something Goes Wrong

9 Printing

         9.1 Introduction

         9.2 Basic Setup

         9.3 Advanced Printer Setup

         9.4 Using Printers

         9.5 Alternatives to the Standard Spooler

         9.6 Troubleshooting

10 Linux Binary Compatibility

         10.1 Installation

         10.2 Installing Mathematica®

         10.3 Installing Maple™

         10.4 Installing MATLAB®

         10.5 Installing Oracle®

         10.6 Installing SAP® R/3®

         10.7 Advanced Topics

III. System Administration

 

11 Configuration and Tuning

         11.1 Initial Configuration

         11.2 Core Configuration

         11.3 Application Configuration

         11.4 Starting Services

         11.5 Configuring the cron Utility

         11.6 Using rc under FreeBSD

         11.7 Setting Up Network Interface Cards

         11.8 Virtual Hosts

         11.9 Configuration Files

         11.10 Tuning with sysctl

         11.11 Tuning Disks

         11.12 Tuning Kernel Limits

         11.13 Adding Swap Space

         11.14 Power and Resource Management

         11.15 Using and Debugging FreeBSD ACPI

12 The FreeBSD Booting Process

         12.1 The Booting Problem

         12.2 The Boot Manager and Boot Stages

         12.3 Kernel Interaction During Boot

         12.4 Device Hints

         12.5 Init: Process Control Initialization

         12.6 Shutdown Sequence

13 Users and Basic Account Management

         13.1 Introduction

         13.2 The Superuser Account

         13.3 System Accounts

         13.4 User Accounts

         13.5 Modifying Accounts

         13.6 Limiting Users

         13.7 Groups

14 Security

         14.1 Introduction

         14.2 Securing FreeBSD

         14.3 DES, Blowfish, MD5, and Crypt

         14.4 One-time Passwords

         14.5 TCP Wrappers

         14.6 KerberosIV

         14.7 Kerberos5

         14.8 OpenSSL

         14.9 VPN over IPsec

         14.10 OpenSSH

         14.11 File System Access Control Lists

         14.12 Monitoring Third Party Security Issues

         14.13 FreeBSD Security Advisories

         14.14 Process Accounting

15 Jails

         15.1 Terms Related to Jails

         15.2 Introduction

         15.3 Creating and Controlling Jails

         15.4 Fine Tuning and Administration

         15.5 Application of Jails

16 Mandatory Access Control

         16.1 Key Terms in this Chapter

         16.2 Explanation of MAC

         16.3 Understanding MAC Labels

         16.4 Planning the Security Configuration

         16.5 Module Configuration

         16.6 The MAC seeotheruids Module

         16.7 The MAC bsdextended Module

         16.8 The MAC ifoff Module

         16.9 The MAC portacl Module

         16.10 The MAC partition Module

         16.11 The MAC Multi-Level Security Module

         16.12 The MAC Biba Module

         16.13 The MAC LOMAC Module 

         16.14 Nagios in a MAC Jail

         16.15 User Lock Down

         16.16 Troubleshooting the MAC Framework

17 Security Event Auditing

         17.1 Key Terms in this Chapter

         17.2 Installing Audit Support

         17.3 Audit Configuration

         17.4 Administering the Audit Subsystem

18 Storage

         18.1 Device Names

         18.2 Adding Disks

         18.3 RAID

         18.4 USB Storage Devices

         18.5 Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs)

         18.6 Creating and Using Optical Media (DVDs)

         18.7 Creating and Using Floppy Disks

         18.8 Creating and Using Data Tapes

         18.9 Backups to Floppies

         18.10 Backup Strategies

         18.11 Backup Basics

         18.12 Network, Memory, and File-Backed File Systems

         18.13 File System Snapshots

         18.14 File System Quotas

         18.15 Encrypting Disk Partitions

         18.16 Encrypting Swap Space

19 GEOM: Modular Disk Transformation Framework

         19.1 GEOM Introduction

         19.2 RAID0 - Striping

         19.3 RAID1 - Mirroring

         19.4 GEOM Gate Network Devices

         19.5 Labeling Disk Devices

         19.6 UFS Journaling Through GEOM

20 File Systems Support

         20.1 The Z File System

21 The Vinum Volume Manager

         21.1 Disks Are Too Small

         21.2 Access Bottlenecks

         21.3 Data Integrity

         21.4 Vinum Objects

         21.5 Some Examples

         21.6 Object Naming

         21.7 Configuring Vinum

         21.8 Using Vinum for the Root Filesystem

22 Virtualization

         22.1 FreeBSD as a Guest OS

         22.2 FreeBSD as a Host OS

23 Localization - I18N/L10N Usage and Setup

         23.1 The Basics

         23.2 Using Localization

         23.3 Compiling I18N Programs

         23.4 Localizing FreeBSD to Specific Languages

24 Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD

         24.1 FreeBSD Update

         24.2 Portsnap: A Ports Collection Update Tool

         24.3 Updating the Documentation Set

         24.4 Tracking a Development Branch

         24.5 Synchronizing Your Source

         24.6 Rebuilding “world” 

         24.7 Tracking for Multiple Machines

25 DTrace

         25.1 Implementation Differences

         25.2 Enabling DTrace Support

         25.3 Using DTrace

         25.4 The D Language

IV. Network Communication

 

26 Serial Communications

         26.1 Introduction

         26.2 Terminals

         26.3 Dial-in Service

         26.4 Dial-out Service

         26.5 Setting Up the Serial Console

27 PPP and SLIP

        27.1 Using User PPP

        27.2 Using Kernel PPP

        27.3 Troubleshooting PPP Connections

        27.4 Using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

        27.5 Using PPP over ATM (PPPoA)

        27.6 Using SLIP

28 Electronic Mail

        28.1 Using Electronic Mail

        28.2 sendmail Configuration

        28.3 Changing Your Mail Transfer Agent

        28.4 Troubleshooting

        28.5 Advanced Topics

        28.6 SMTP with UUCP

        28.7 Setting Up to Send Only

        28.8 Using Mail with a Dialup Connection

        28.9 SMTP Authentication

        28.10 Mail User Agents

        28.11 Using fetchmail

        28.12 Using procmail

29 Network Servers

        29.1 The inetd “Super-Server”

        29.2 Network File System (NFS) 

        29.3 Network Information System (NIS/YP)

        29.4 Automatic Network Configuration (DHCP)

        29.5 Domain Name System (DNS)

        29.6 Apache HTTP Server

        29.7 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

        29.8 File and Print Services for Microsoft® Windows® clients (Samba)

        29.9 Clock Synchronization with NTP

        29.10 Remote Host Logging with syslogd

30 Firewalls

        30.1 Introduction

        30.2 Firewall Concepts

        30.3 Firewall Packages

        30.4 The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) and ALTQ

        30.5 The IPFILTER (IPF) Firewall

        30.6 IPFW

31 Advanced Networking

        31.1 Gateways and Routes

        31.2 Wireless Networking

        31.3 Bluetooth

        31.4 Bridging

        31.5 Link Aggregation and Failover

        31.6 Diskless Operation

        31.7 ISDN

        31.8 Network Address Translation

        31.9 Parallel Line IP (PLIP)

        31.10 IPv6

        31.11 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

        31.12 Common Access Redundancy Protocol (CARP)

 32. Project work.