Quoth John or Judy Hixson on Sunday, 08 May 2011: > 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_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
For viewing or editing a file, what you want is a text editor. I use vim, but it really isn't designed for beginners. Whatever editor you decide to use, I would advise reading up on it before jumping into text files. To list files in a directory, the command is 'ls'. Type 'man ls' to get full documentation. In fact, for most Unix commands, 'man' is your friend. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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