BRIEF CONTENTS -- Foreword by Robert N.M. Watson -- Introduction -- 1: Getting More Help -- 2: Installing Freebsd -- 3: Start Me Up! The Boot Process -- 4: Read This Before You Break Something Else! (Backup and Recovery) -- 5: Kernel Games -- 6: The Network -- 7: Securing Your System -- 8: Disks and Filesystems -- 9: Advanced Security Features -- 10: Exploring /etc -- 11: Making Your System Useful -- 12: Advanced Software Management -- 13: Upgrading Freebsd -- 14: The Internet Road Map: DNS -- 15: Small System Services -- 16: Spam, Worms, and Viruses (Plus Email, If You Insist) -- 17: Web and FTP Services -- 18: Disk Tricks with GEOM -- 19: System Performance and Monitoring -- 20: The Fringe of Freebsd -- 21: System (and Sysadmin) Panics and Crashes -- Afterword -- Some Interesting sysctl MIBS -- Index -- Updates.