This five-day, hands-on technical seminar covers topics that administrators of FreeBSD-based systems need to know to keep them running.

Intended for folk familar with using any FreeBSD, Linux or other UNIX-like operating system; folk already knowledgable about using the shell, commands such as grep(1), sed(1), awk(1) and perl(1) and either the vi(1) or emacs(1) text editor.

Topics to be covered include:

• FreeBSD overview and history
• The FreeBSD boot process
• What's where in the FreeBSD filesystem
• Configuring, starting and stopping services
• Jails
• FreeBSD networking and network security
• UFS filesystem and partitioning
• Geom, gmirror and graid3
• ZFS
• The Ports Collection
• Performing backups
• Installing a new FreeBSD system
• Building a custom FreeBSD kernel
• Updating FreeBSD

Contact us for pricing and availability of this class.