Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:12:38 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net>
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I sat down and wrote up a small list of these, for new users. I hope to include this as part of the FOO.TXT files (if there is space available - I'm not sure if they go on the boot floppy), or at least somewhere easily visible. Here it is, at least - I'm sure there are more that can be added, so please fire away! (The routed entry is already contributed by gz@EFnet). Dos and Don'ts of FreeBSD ------------------------- DON'T run pppd unless you either (a) already have a working setup, or (b) absolutely need the 2% reduction of CPU usage it will give you. DON'T run natd with pppd unless you already have the combo working. If it is not up and working, you want to run 'ppp -alias', _even if you already have a working pppd_. There is no excuse WRT CPU usage here, either. DON'T DO IT. DO use 'dangerously dedicated' mode if you're only going to have FreeBSD on the machine. There are a number of problems that can occur with DOS slices; the FreeBSD disklabel is immune to this. (Don't need to change if your system is already working, however.) DON'T run routed unless you know what dynamic routes are and why you need them. DON'T expect to get help on IRC, and don't attempt to demand it. #freebsd is a cesspool; the people you see there are not representative of the FreeBSD community (and I can say this with immunity, as I'm one of them :-) DON'T send questions to anything but questions@freebsd.org, except: * Multimedia questions (TV-cards, sound cards, qcam, and similar) can go to multimedia@freebsd.org. * Questions directly related to the FreeBSD code (ie, not functionality) can be sent to hackers@freebsd.org * Questions about ISDN can be sent to isdn@freebsd.org DON'T send questions about anything (beyond the exceptions noted above) to any mailing list you are not a member of and have read for at least two days. DON'T send questions about network setup to net@freebsd.org. DON'T send questions before having searched the mailing list archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html DON'T send patches except through send-pr. Patches sent to mailing lists directly are likely to not be processed :-( DO send patches :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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