Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:47:52 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014857272.b34fa0@mired.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: primary differences between BSD-based and System V rel 4 *nixes Message-ID: <15478.59064.58879.336070@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020223001042.60725.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <15478.56566.343039.47710@guru.mired.org> <20020223001042.60725.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> types: > (...snip...) > > Want to tell us what parts of the system > > are significant to you, and what kind of system you were on before? > Honestly, I'm pretty new to unix in any form. I'm asking this question > because I'm taking an intro to Solaris class (SA-118) but I really started > tinkering with FreeBSD before any involvement with Solaris. > > Since, I'm receiving formal training on Solaris, I wanted to know the > differences that I'd need to be aware of so that I could flag these > differences and not confuse the two OS'es later on. ps comes to mind as the big difference. On Solaries, the "e" flag shows you all processes on the system; on BSD that flag shows you the processes environments. If you've got one of the two in muscle memory, you'll type the other one at the wrong system on a regular basis. The real thing to get from that class - and the help you get on the FreeBSD lists - is where to go for information. I.e, you type the standard ps "show me everything" command and get something completely unexpected, you need to know to do "man ps" to figure out what you really asked it to do. I already mentioned inittab. If they cover admin issues, you'll go over that. It doesn't exist in FreeBSD. Linux distroes may or may not have it. NetBSD has moved to a system that combines the best features of the System V initialization stuff with as little of the bad stuff as possible, and that's being tested for FreeBSD. Aren't moving targets wonderful things? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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