Wiley BSD UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD 978-0-470-37603-4 Manuale Utente

Starting with BSD
Systems

Whether you use BSD systems every day or just
tweak one once in a while, a book that presents effi-
cient ways to use, check, fix, secure, and enhance
your system can be an invaluable resource.

BSD UNIX Toolbox is that resource.

BSD UNIX Toolbox is aimed primarily at BSD
power users and systems administrators. To give
you what you need, we tell you how to quickly
locate and get software, monitor the health and
security of your systems, and access network
resources. In short, we cut to the most efficient
ways of using BSD systems.

Our goal with BSD UNIX Toolbox is to pack a lot of useful information for
using BSD systems into a small package that you can carry around with
you. To that end, we describe:

❑ Commands — Tons of command line examples to use BSD systems 

in helpful and clever ways

❑ GUI Tools — Quick pointers to graphical administration tools to 

configure your system

❑ Software packages — Short procedures to find and download tons 

of applications

❑ Online resources — Listings of the best locations to find BSD forums,

mailing lists, IRC channels, and other online resources

❑ Local documentation — Tools for gathering more information from

man pages, doc directories, help commands, and other resources on
your BSD system

Because you’re not a beginner with BSD systems, you won’t see a lot of
screenshots of windows, icons, and menus. What you will see, however,

IN THIS CHAPTER

Find BSD resources

Learn quick and 
powerful commands

Have a handy refer-
ence to many useful
utilities 

Work as BSD gurus do

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