Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 From: John or Judy Hixson <johnorjudy@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Needing Help Message-ID: <C9F6205F-EFEC-484C-B97E-01046AF89502@earthlink.net>
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At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until = you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very = elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions = and am therefore taking my chances. I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in anticipation of eventually admining = a FBSD server for my church office network. I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 = on an old PC and am trying to follow along while reading Michael Lucas' = book (2nd ed.). Right now my problem is with the command line. Lucas = make a statement as follows: "If you want to see a comprehensive list of = loader variables, check the default configuration file." Since there is = no command "check", I have no idea what to use. What command will = "check" a file? What I really want to do is "view" the file, but that = command doesn't exist either. Another problem that's throwing me for a = loop is that even though I'm logged in as root I'm getting a "permission = denied" return when I list a file (e.g. /etc/fstab) and press enter. This no doubt the wrong place for simple questions like these so someone = PLEASE tell me where better to go. Thank you. John Hixson=
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