On 5/8/2011 7:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote:
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.
Welcome.
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
Unless you have some specific need for a legacy version, I
would strongly suggest installing the latest production
version. Right now that's 8.2.
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
He means to view the contents of the file with "cat" or "more".
The shell or command line is where most of the action happens
in FreeBSD and other unix-like operating systems. While it
might look primitive to a newcomer, once you lean it you find
it to be more powerful and you can imagine.
I would probably help to read some books or websites on "basic
unix operation" or "unix shell basics". No, I don't have any
specific ones to recommend, but I'll bet there's a great one
within the first 5 google responses.
Good luck!
-- Noel
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