From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 13:12:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13585 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:12:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (max2-187.HiWAAY.net [206.104.22.187]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13580 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.HiWAAY.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA05455; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 15:12:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19961123.062533.4671.0.hounddog@juno.com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:59:02 -0600 (CST) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: (Hans N Gruber) Subject: RE: Help: Idiot on the loose Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 12:25:11 hounddog@juno.com wrote: > I managed to create a file called "first file" (yes, with a >space), and cannot delete it as FreeBSD is treating as two files which >don't exist. Tell rm that "first file" is one filename the same way you told us: nexgen: {1007} mkdir junk nexgen: {1008} cd junk nexgen: {1009} touch "first file" nexgen: {1010} ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 dkelly dkelly 0 Nov 23 14:57 first file nexgen: {1011} rm "first file" nexgen: {1012} ls -l nexgen: {1013} cd .. nexgen: {1014} rmdir junk >Nextly, I created a user on the system (which is me), mainly >because it seemed at the time (during install), that it was the thing to >do. How do I log on as admin instead of user? It was a good thing to do, to create a user account for yourself. You can do a lot of damage logged in as root. The "administration" account is named "root". Read /etc/passwd for information on accounts your system has, but don't edit it with anything other than vipw. You really need the online man pages as no book from the library is going to do a perfect job of describing any specific Un*x. The man pages are not that much overhead, yet are not enough (either) to fully describe the system: nexgen: {1028} cd /usr/share/man nexgen: {1029} du -sk man* 1134 man1 300 man2 772 man3 298 man4 218 man5 112 man6 79 man7 563 man8 2 man9 Looks like 2.5M.