I thought windows was the easy to use operating system, and FreeBSD was for those who wanted more...
I'm a newbie myself, but slowly getting somewhere. Just for future reference, I've attached a text file that I use all the time which contains a list of commands/urls which help me remember stuff. It might help you Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: there must be a better way > to the FreeBSD people: > I wanted to use your product but i had to back off. Do you know why? > This is because you guys make it so complicated to operate that when an > UNIX newbie wants to use your product (which is a good thing)he usually > backs away when he sees very complicated stuffs and functions. > EXAMPLE: > Who in the earth would want to memorize this whole thing just to mount > a cdrom in practical life... > %mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /usr/mnt/cdrom > > So my Question is WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO COME OUT WITH A DIST > IN WHICH TOUSANDS OF TEENEGERS WILL ATTRACT...NOT REJECT? Dont you > you people should consider the newbies too > _____________Jessica Olaya > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >
/etc/inetd.conf /etc/rc.conf /usr/local/etc/smb.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config pkg_add pkg_delete pkg_version -v make clean make install make deinstall make reinstall make search key=lisp make extract will stop it after it has fetched and extracted the source code make distclean make fetch-list will display a list of the files needed for a port mount_smbfs -I bramp //n00b@bramp/downloads /smb/bramp/downloads mount_smbfs -I bramp //n00b@bramp/mp3 /smb/bramp/mp3 du -s * | sort -n will give you a sorted list of your directory sizes. find / -name "*apach*" ps -aux | grep whatever ee Easy To Use Text Editor locate apache /stand/sysinstall rehash PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ ' PS1='\w>\[$(tput me)\]' /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh pw -Edits users/groups tar xvzf file.tar.gz http://www.freebsddiary.org/ www.freebsd.org/handbook www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/q/FreeBSD_Basics http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Make update http://www.ezunix.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11&page=1 Time Keeping http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ipcop-user&m=101806128912979&w=2 IPF How To http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.txt