Part III. System Administration
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Part III. System Administration

The remaining chapters cover all aspects of FreeBSD system administration. Each chapter starts by describing what will be learned as a result of reading the chapter, and also details what the reader is expected to know before tackling the material.

These chapters are designed to be read as the information is needed. They do not need to be read in any particular order, nor must all of them be read before beginning to use FreeBSD.

Table of Contents
12. Configuration and Tuning
12.1. Synopsis
12.2. Starting Services
12.3. Configuring cron(8)
12.4. Managing Services in FreeBSD
12.5. Setting Up Network Interface Cards
12.6. Virtual Hosts
12.7. Configuring System Logging
12.8. Configuration Files
12.9. Tuning with sysctl(8)
12.10. Tuning Disks
12.11. Tuning Kernel Limits
12.12. Adding Swap Space
12.13. Power and Resource Management
13. The FreeBSD Booting Process
13.1. Synopsis
13.2. FreeBSD Boot Process
13.3. Configuring Boot Time Splash Screens
13.4. Device Hints
13.5. Shutdown Sequence
14. Security
14.1. Synopsis
14.2. Introduction
14.3. One-time Passwords
14.4. TCP Wrapper
14.5. Kerberos
14.6. OpenSSL
14.7. VPN over IPsec
14.8. OpenSSH
14.9. Access Control Lists
14.10. Monitoring Third Party Security Issues
14.11. FreeBSD Security Advisories
14.12. Process Accounting
14.13. Resource Limits
14.14. Shared Administration with Sudo
15. Jails
15.1. Synopsis
15.2. Terms Related to Jails
15.3. Creating and Controlling Jails
15.4. Fine Tuning and Administration
15.5. Updating Multiple Jails
15.6. Managing Jails with ezjail
16. Mandatory Access Control
16.1. Synopsis
16.2. Key Terms
16.3. Understanding MAC Labels
16.4. Planning the Security Configuration
16.5. Available MAC Policies
16.6. User Lock Down
16.7. Nagios in a MAC Jail
16.8. Troubleshooting the MAC Framework
17. Security Event Auditing
17.1. Synopsis
17.2. Key Terms
17.3. Audit Configuration
17.4. Working with Audit Trails
18. Storage
18.1. Synopsis
18.2. Adding Disks
18.3. Resizing and Growing Disks
18.4. USB Storage Devices
18.5. Creating and Using CD Media
18.6. Creating and Using DVD Media
18.7. Creating and Using Floppy Disks
18.8. Backup Basics
18.9. Memory Disks
18.10. File System Snapshots
18.11. Disk Quotas
18.12. Encrypting Disk Partitions
18.13. Encrypting Swap
18.14. Highly Available Storage (HAST)
19. GEOM: Modular Disk Transformation Framework
19.1. Synopsis
19.2. RAID0 - Striping
19.3. RAID1 - Mirroring
19.4. RAID3 - Byte-level Striping with Dedicated Parity
19.5. Software RAID Devices
19.6. GEOM Gate Network
19.7. Labeling Disk Devices
19.8. UFS Journaling Through GEOM
20. The Z File System (ZFS)
20.1. What Makes ZFS Different
20.2. Quick Start Guide
20.3. zpool Administration
20.4. zfs Administration
20.5. Delegated Administration
20.6. Advanced Topics
20.7. Additional Resources
20.8. ZFS Features and Terminology
21. Other File Systems
21.1. Synopsis
21.2. Linux® File Systems
22. Virtualization
22.1. Synopsis
22.2. FreeBSD as a Guest on Parallels for Mac OS® X
22.3. FreeBSD as a Guest on Virtual PC for Windows®
22.4. FreeBSD as a Guest on VMware Fusion for Mac OS®
22.5. FreeBSD as a Guest on VirtualBox™
22.6. FreeBSD as a Host with VirtualBox™
22.7. FreeBSD as a Host with bhyve
22.8. FreeBSD as a Xen™-Host
23. Localization - i18n/L10n Usage and Setup
23.1. Synopsis
23.2. Using Localization
23.3. Finding i18n Applications
23.4. Locale Configuration for Specific Languages
24. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD
24.1. Synopsis
24.2. FreeBSD Update
24.3. Updating the Documentation Set
24.4. Tracking a Development Branch
24.5. Updating FreeBSD from Source
24.6. Tracking for Multiple Machines
25. DTrace
25.1. Synopsis
25.2. Implementation Differences
25.3. Enabling DTrace Support
25.4. Using DTrace
26. USB Device Mode / USB OTG
26.1. Synopsis
26.2. USB Virtual Serial Ports
26.3. USB Device Mode Network Interfaces
26.4. USB Virtual Storage Device
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