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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Yimin Hsiao <yihsiao@ucsd.edu>
Cc:        "'FreeBSD Help'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: More Questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422161649.24344d-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <01BC4EE3.C1B07140@yihsiao.extern.ucsd.edu>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Yimin Hsiao wrote:

> 1.  Is there any WRITTEN manual for FreeBSD?  One that explains
> everything, or close to everything?  There are just too many commands in
> FreeBSD and I just hope to at least be aware of their existance. 

A book, "The Complete FreeBSD", exists which contains notes from the
Handbook and many manual pages.

> 2.  Are the messages displayed at the beginning of each boot-up stored
> somewhere?  I get this error
> 	standard daemons: inetd cron printer sendmailroot... Recipient
> names must be specified everything time I boot and the system just
> freezes there until I press Ctrl-C.  The name of the machine is defined
> in /etc/hosts, and I modified my /etc/ host.conf to read

You can press scroll-lock to scroll back the console.  Sendmail problems
will also appear in /var/log/maillog and perhaps the system messages log
/var/log/messages.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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