From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 6:41:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884E937B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailm3.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm3.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB0243E75 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from [195.92.168.141] (helo=tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk) by cmailm3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17uvMv-0001XL-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:41:21 +0100 Received: from modem-2567.lynx.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.202.7] helo=andrew) by tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17uvMu-0003Oj-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:41:20 +0100 Message-ID: <011b01c2662b$93db60d0$0300a8c0@andrew> From: "Andrew Brampton" To: "mufassa bendover" , References: Subject: Re: there must be a better way Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:09:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00A1_01C2661E.B4622C60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A1_01C2661E.B4622C60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I thought windows was the easy to use operating system, and FreeBSD was for those who wanted more... I'm a newbie myself, but slowly getting somewhere. Just for future reference, I've attached a text file that I use all the time which contains a list of commands/urls which help me remember stuff. It might help you Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "mufassa bendover" To: Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: there must be a better way > to the FreeBSD people: > I wanted to use your product but i had to back off. Do you know why? > This is because you guys make it so complicated to operate that when an > UNIX newbie wants to use your product (which is a good thing)he usually > backs away when he sees very complicated stuffs and functions. > EXAMPLE: > Who in the earth would want to memorize this whole thing just to mount > a cdrom in practical life... > %mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /usr/mnt/cdrom > > So my Question is WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO COME OUT WITH A DIST > IN WHICH TOUSANDS OF TEENEGERS WILL ATTRACT...NOT REJECT? Dont you > you people should consider the newbies too > _____________Jessica Olaya > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------=_NextPart_000_00A1_01C2661E.B4622C60 Content-Type: text/plain; name="freeBSD.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="freeBSD.txt" /etc/inetd.conf /etc/rc.conf /usr/local/etc/smb.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config pkg_add pkg_delete=20 pkg_version -v make clean make install make deinstall make reinstall make search key=3Dlisp make extract will stop it after it has fetched and extracted the source = code make distclean make fetch-list will display a list of the files needed for a port mount_smbfs -I bramp //n00b@bramp/downloads /smb/bramp/downloads=20 mount_smbfs -I bramp //n00b@bramp/mp3 /smb/bramp/mp3 du -s * | sort -n will give you a sorted list of your directory sizes. find / -name "*apach*" ps -aux | grep whatever ee Easy To Use Text Editor locate apache /stand/sysinstall rehash PS1=3D'(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ ' PS1=3D'\w>\[$(tput me)\]' /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh pw -Edits users/groups tar xvzf file.tar.gz http://www.freebsddiary.org/ www.freebsd.org/handbook www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/q/FreeBSD_Basics http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Make update http://www.ezunix.org/modules.php?op=3Dmodload&name=3DSections&file=3Dind= ex&req=3Dviewarticle&artid=3D11&page=3D1 Time Keeping http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dipcop-user&m=3D101806128912979&w=3D2 IPF How To http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.txt ------=_NextPart_000_00A1_01C2661E.B4622C60-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message