Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Ferrell <jdferrell3@yahoo.com> To: gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Linux Users article Message-ID: <966552.65269.qm@web90605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> Hi John ! >> Is this what the documentation project had in mind? I welcome any comments, >> suggestions, changes, etc. >When you write: >"It is recommended that the root's default shell remain unchanged, though." >Maybe it would be nice to have a reference to the handbook. >Which I have perused, but couldn't find anything relevant. There is actually no >such recommendation in the HB :-( >The one I found was this: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT >pertaining to the "toor" account, which gives a nice explanation. >(slightly OT: we might want to add such an explanation in the HB ?) >I find the article pretty clear anyway :-) >Maybe we should also mention the fact that there is no longer a "/proc" on >procfs: FreeBSD uses "sysctl" instead ? (I know some GNU/Linux users who use >/proc in their shells to grab info on the system, they might like to know they >have to proceed differently). >What do you (all) think ? >cheers, >gregory Gregory, Thank you for you comments and suggestions. I have incorporated them into the article. http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html What else might be missing or need to be changed? Thanks, John
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