Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:33:18 -0400 From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> To: 'Todd Ross' <brainlist@brainsick.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: two quick questions (man pages and tcsh) Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1986@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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Todd Ross [mailto:brainlist@brainsick.com] > 1) Why does tcsh store its config files in two places (/.cshrc and > /etc/csh.cshrc). From my brief testing, it looks like one is > used for root > and the other is used for all of the other accounts in the > system. I'm just > wondering the reasoning behind it. I'd guess it has > something to do with > when you boot into single user mode? Actually, the idea is that you may have some settings which should affect _all_ users, and some settings which are on a user by user basis. You could, for example, have a base path and prompt, which can be overridden on a user by user basis. > 2) Why do some man pages have (4) or (2) after them? For > example ... usb(4). The man pages are split into many separate sections. Thus, you can have the same item in several sections -- crontab comes to mind. Try doing man 1 crontab and man 5 crontab to see what I mean... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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