From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 6 01:31:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02407 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 01:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02396 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 01:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id BAA28468; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 01:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810060831.BAA28468@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from symnt3.cadence.com(194.32.101.100) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma907662667.028461; Tue, 6 Oct 98 01:31:07 -0700 Received: from pc287-cam.cadence.com (d194032096136.Cadence.COM [194.32.96.136]) by symnt3.Cadence.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id Q4J1B6NM; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:31:25 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:30:44 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I sat down and wrote up a small list of these, for new users. I > hope to include this as part of the FOO.TXT files (if there is space > available - I'm not sure if they go on the boot floppy), or at least > somewhere easily visible. A few suggestions: DO use RCS for storing configuration files in /etc once your machine is set up or write it down in a note book. Otherwise, you will forget the majic one line change in /etc/. Many configuration files in /etc include .local so use it. Contentious ;-) DONT use sendmail, use exim. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message