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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!usenet From: alan@s056.aone.net.au (Alan Ruedlinger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New User's Book Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:15:43 GMT Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4dfu0h$mu4@news.mel.aone.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pppc10.nectar.com.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Can anyone comment on the book "Design & Implementation of 4.3 BSD Unix Operating System" by Leffler et. al.? Is this a good book to the new user with no previous unix experience in terms of system administration? I already have "Teach Yourself Unix in 21 days" by SAMS, which I found to be generally good, but did not mention system admistration or how the various parts of the operating system fit in. Also, I've managed to customise and recompile my kernel, but, uhmmm.. errr.. how do I compile C programs? I wrote the all time favourite 'Hello world!" straight from a book on C, but it won't run :( I've compiled it by typing "gcc -v hello.c"; an a.out file is created but when I type a.out, FreeBSD tells me something like 'command not found' (incidentally, I tried this on a linux machine and it worked first go :).. Alan.