Part III. System Administration
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Part III. System Administration

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

These chapters are designed to be read when you need the information. You do not have to read them in any particular order, nor do you need to read all of them before you can begin using 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
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 OS
22.3. FreeBSD as a Host with VirtualBox
22.4. FreeBSD as a Host with bhyve
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. Synchronizing Source
24.6. Rebuilding World
24.7. Tracking for Multiple Machines
25. DTrace
25.1. Synopsis
25.2. Implementation Differences
25.3. Enabling DTrace Support
25.4. Using DTrace
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