Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: Brill Pappin <brillp@nation.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help for a "dos'sy" Message-ID: <0lQXnv200YUf021VA0@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <316FD3EA.414@nation.org> References: <316FD3EA.414@nation.org>
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There are two parts to this email -- first, a question of minor importance, and second, an attempt to answer your question. First: there are some funny codes in your email, I was wondering what email package you used, and whether you knew if it uses RTF or etc. I'm curious about what the codes are produced by, as I have seen them in quite a few emails/posts, and they probably get inserted by some common mailer that I don't use :). With regards to your question -- I would personally invest in "Unix System Administration Essentials" by O'Reilly and Associates (publisher). Release 2 if possible. It is a really good book that covers most everything one would need to know. As a dos user who was thrown into Unix sysadmin without warning, and had to support a user base of 300-400 in two weeks time (that was 3 years ago) it was kind of a shock. :) Fortunately BSD came preinstalled (BSDI in this case, which is a commercial flavor of FreeBSD) and I had a tech support number, but it was a long road with no help. Take a look through the FreeBSD handbook on www.freebsd.org, keep in mind the "man" command which provides some limited information about the purpose and incantations of a command, eg., man ls man man etc. Also, use the "more" command to view the config files in /etc, they gave me a feel for what does what in unix just by virtue of seeing a lot of the settings. so: cd /etc more * might help. Press space to go down a page, q to quit at any time, and :n to skip to the next file. If this is too basic, my apologies :). Keep in mind that unix, being multi-user, is heavily oriented around mediating system resources and services, and that will show up a lot in anything you do on the system -- eg., file rights, user communication, etc. Feel free to email me (and presumably questions@freebsd.org) with questions you have :). Robert Watson rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu
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