I’m evaluating if FreeBSD can take the place of Debian on my production servers. Over the past month I’ve read several books, scoured forums and the FreeBSD handbook, and taken ample notes along the way. //

• The FreeBSD handbook provides great advice to use ssmtp for routing simple outgoing console/cron emails to yourself instead of setting up big, bulky, cranky postfix.

• Bash script opening shebangs need to be changed to #!/usr/bin/env bash to make them platform agnostic (they won’t run on FreeBSD if they are #!/bin/bash).