Mirrors Primary (US) Issues February 2002 February 2002 Get BSD Contact Us Search BSD FAQ New to BSD? DN Print Magazine BSD News BSD Mall BSD Support Source Wars Join Us T H I S M O N T H ' S F E A T U R E S From the Editor Fun With Automounting on FreeBSD Editorial by Renaud Waldura by Chris Coleman I'm writing this editorial Tired of having to login as root and type mount -t cd9660 from the classroom where I /dev/cd0c /mnt everytime you want to read a CD-ROM? am teaching Daemon News' Automounting is for you! Once properly configured (the first training class. This is goal of this document), you will only have to insert the CD the last day of class, and I into your drive, cd to /cdrom and *wham* everything am pleased to report that it happens automagically! Read More has gone very well... Get BSD Stuff Making Friends with tcsh - Part 3 by Konrad Heuer Konrad finishes his three part series with alias definitions, start-up files and hints concerning advanced csh and tcsh features. Read More RADIUS Search by Bill Moran Monthly Ezine RADIUS stands for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Search Service. It's purpose is to supply information and authentication for multiple dial-in servers. If you only have a single dial-in server then you probably don't need the a single dial-in server then you probably don’t need the complexity of RADIUS. However, if you want to provide Daily Daemon News dial-in services to clients in more than one area code, you’ll probably have to rent "points of presence" from the phone February 2002 Issue of company, and the phone company will expect you to have a Dæmon News Ezine RADIUS server. Read More Published FreeBSD Week: Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD EuroBSDCon 2002 Japanese Language Support in NetBSD announced by Hal Snyder FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE is now available The intent of this article is to introduce NetBSD’s Japanese FreeBSD Week: Interview language support to the English-speaking user. 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If you understand the difference between the cua and tty /device files, then you may be well ahead of the majority of us BSD'ers. We make no pretense at being profound; instead we attempt to answer questions and de-mystify the idea that "Unix is so impossibly hard that it is only for the hard-core nerd". Read More Copyright © 1998-2001 DæmonNews. All Rights Reserved. February 2002 Search Submit Article Contact Us Join Us Merchandise BSD Training Chris Coleman <[email protected]> I'm writing this editorial from the classroom where I am teaching Daemon News' first training class. This is the last day of class, and I am pleased to report that it has gone very well. I have really enjoyed teaching the class this week. The first session was a one day "Introduction to FreeBSD" class that covered almost everything in Annelise Anderson's book "FreeBSD: An Open Source OS for your PC." The next four day session, "FreeBSD System Administration", covered much of the book "FreeBSD Unleashed". In addition, we covered several things that weren't included in the books. I even managed to bring in a local expert to help teach because he was available. Greg Sutter came in and taught the class how to run PostFix, a mail transfer agent and Sendmail replacement. I have to finish this up before the lunch break is over so the e-zine can finish publishing, and I can finish teaching, so this editorial will be shorter than most. Since I had the class here, I asked them if they had anything to say about the training class; here are their responses. "It was a great course, it helped me fill in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. The instructor took time to tailor it to fit my needs." - Paul Warner, Developer "FreeBSD r0x0rs, w00t w00t" - Ralph Hitz, SP System Administrator, Germany "I arrived on Monday with a whole list of questions and I am pleased to say that every one of them has been answered." -Iain Sinclair, Sysadmin, Santa Maria High School District "I've taken the RedHat 252 course and this blows it away." - Phillip Benton, Unix Administrator, McDermott, Will & Emery "Class was very informative. BSD already saved our company more than $400,000 and this class helped me consider BSD in the enterprise beyond the limitations of WebMin." - Usama Houlila, Senior Network Architect, McDermott Will & Emery This is just the start of our training classes; we will be teaching another sysadmin class in New York soon, and have also already scheduled a BSD Security class. Check the training section of the BSD Mall for details. -Chris Author maintains all copyrights on this article. Images and layout Copyright © 1998-2001 Dæmon News. All Rights Reserved. February 2002 Search Submit Article Contact Us Join Us Merchandise Fun With Automounting on FreeBSD Renaud Waldura <renaud+[email protected]> Tired of having to login as root and type: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt everytime you want to read a CD-ROM? Automounting is for you! Once properly configured (the goal of this document), you will only have to insert the CD into your drive, cd to /cdrom and wham everything happens automagically! My foray into the wonderful world of automounting started the day I got my hands on a big, noisy hard drive: I wanted the disk space for backup files and stuff, but couldn't bear the awful, high-pitched noise it generated day and night. So I configured my FreeBSD box to automount the drive whenever needed, then unmount it and spin the drive down when it wasn't used anymore. DISCLAIMER I am by no means an amd/NFS guru, only a user of those technologies. While I believe this document to be correct and helpful, I cannot take responsibility for any prejudice that might occur following the instructions included herein. Quite the contrary, I am so unsure of myself that I will wholeheartedly welcome any correction/addition sent to me (interested parties can find my address at the top of this document).