Chapter Basic System Administration

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Reviewer: Yannick Cadin yannick@diablotin.fr FreeBSD/OpenBSD


An important component of system administration is an awareness of its subsystems and their interactions, as well as how to monitor the health of a running system. Demonstrate experience in interacting with BSD processes, a running kernel, and the BSD boot process. Demonstrate familiarity with BSD devices, the disk subsystem and the mail and print daemons.