From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 23:14:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web21001.mail.yahoo.com (web21001.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E803837B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:14:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020404071447.10775.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.3.230.240] by web21001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 08:14:47 BST Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:14:47 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Matt=20Sykes?= Subject: Re: some newbie questions To: Rohit Panda , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020404061930.11141.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Rohit Panda wrote: > hi, > i have some few basic newbie questions. > 1. how to receive telnet connection from other > computers in the n/w. Uncomment the 'telnet' line in /etc/inetd.conf, and in rc.conf make sure you have inetd_enable="YES" But there's No Good Reason to use telnet (which comes to mind). Look into ssh. > 2.why dosent the the tab (for command completion ) > work for normal users.i have the user in the wheel > group. Hmm I'm not sure. Is the user's shell tcsh or some other tab-completing shell? To change the user's shell, type 'chsh username'. Did someone disable completion in /etc/csh.login or /etc/csh.cshrc? Just so you know, a 'normal user' shouldn't be in the wheel group. The wheel group is for administrators; being in this group gives the user the right to su to root. > 3.while installation i missed out i suppose to give an > ip address to the ethernet interface.so i have to > always set it manually using ifconfig.how do i set it > once and for all. In my /etc/rc.conf I have defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0" which does the job for me. xl0 is my crappy 3Com card; you may have a different one. There's a file called /etc/defaults/rc.conf which sets default values of parameters which you can override in /etc/rc.conf. It also explains each parameter. Sadly this "inside scoop" on /etc/defaults/rc.conf is somehow not conveyed to FreeBSD newcomers; as I remember it was a couple weeks before I discovered it. --Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message