Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:56:57 +0100 From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> To: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation opportunities (Was: resolv.conf overwrite Message-ID: <20010412155657.B93077@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <3AD5BE40.2E1E9AA7@acm.org>; from zettel@acm.org on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:40:00AM -0400 References: <3AD5BE40.2E1E9AA7@acm.org>
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* Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> [010412 15:41]: > ------ > Total so far $219.94 > > dhclient is not in the index of the other books listed above and I > don't recall a reference to it in any of the documentation I have > perused. man -k dhclient. Trust me, BSD manpages actually make sense. They're up to date, accurate and well-referenced. If you've ever used Linux, this will come as a great surprise to you (it did to me). > .....responsibility from about 1963-1995. As a market, > I am probably typical of a hopelessly small segment (and a darn > curmudgeon to boot "Sonny, I remember when..."). "We had to bang zeroes together just to get the ones?" > ......that. Right now I would be happy knowing > exactly what scripts, files etc. my system is accessing when it > boots up and how to read them. What logs are produced and how to > read them. Yes, I can read C code. I feel I can learn to read > scripts (hopefully with the help of some of the stuff I have bought). Then nothing's stopping you. read the manpages on the loader, then on init, then on rc. You can sit down with a few xterms and follow the entire boot sequence from beginning to end. As the bald guy said: "Welcome to the real world". ( "a.s.r - we took *both* pills" ) -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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