People recommend me these books https://www.openbsd.org/books.html for 
programming starting point. Here is a list of admin. related books too. Very 
comprehensive and useful books listed.

Martin

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On Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:15 PM, Chris Zakelj <c.zak...@ieee.org> wrote:

> Looking to the list for suggestions on becoming at least a
> semi-competent admin.  Long-time members may remember my trial-by-fire
> 15+ years ago when the boss ordered a T1 and the carrier's tech
> "helpfully" pointed the dmz interface at the (already outdated) NT4 file
> server.  My current situation is nothing like that, but thanks to all
> the recent trolls, I discovered that following the IEEE's transition
> from their email service being little more than a .forward alias into a
> full-fledged GMail suite, that Google wasn't forwarding emails it deemed
> spammy and caused the partial loss of nearly seven months' worth of
> mail.  Since I don't trust Google or pretty much any "free" provider at
> this point, that means doing it myself.  Some steps (registering a
> domain, ordering business-class service or a static IP, etc) are
> self-evident.  But after that, there's a lot I really need to learn
> beyond what's in the man pages, and my copy of 'Absolute OpenBSD' is
> quite dated at this point.  I've also got that misbehaving ARC-1200B
> card, so if dlg@ or another team member in the US/Canada has interest in
> figuring out what's going sideways, I'll pay for shipping both ways.


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