Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:09:05 +0700 From: John Indra <m4v3r1ck@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie has a lot of questions... Message-ID: <20000108180905.A6865@bigfoot.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list readers... =) I'm new to both this list and FreeBSD. I have a lot of questions and I have decided to ask them in one long mail ( *sorry* ) considering waste caused by my message headers if I ask one question in one mail. First of all, I'm Indonesian, so English definitely is not my mother language. Thus I beg your pardon for my vocab and grammatical errors. I'm a novice sysadmin. I administer a small network with Red Hat Linux as the core server (web, mail, and database). Have been interested with FreeBSD for a long time, so I decided to give it a try. I had my FreeBSD CD-ROM on Dec 31st 1999 and decided to delete a Linux partition and place FreeBSD over it. Know what really attract me to try FreeBSD? The daemon... ;) so... here's my first question: what's Mr D'mon name? I can't find it on the FAQ... Maybe this question (and answer) could be included in the future FAQ ;) Ok... now... to get to real business... I understand that there is a runlevel concept in Linux. I believe that this was inherited from SysV. Are there any runlevel concept on FreeBSD or *BSD variant in general? What is the boot sequence in FreeBSD? Till now, this is what I understand: Bootstrap -> /kernel -> /sbin/init -> read /etc/rc* -> invoke gettys -> login. Is my understanding correct? AFAIK all Linux distribution use bash as their default shell. So when I got csh as my default root shell, I panic! Can anyone teach me how to use csh? I don't need to know the details, I just need to know whether csh can cycle through all the commands I've executed (in bash, I can use the up and down arrow), and does csh support command/filename completion. If yes, how do I get it? (what key do I need to press? In bash, we use tab to complete command/filename) When I login as root on ttyv*, or if I login as normal user and then I su - to root, I got double "message". One outputed to /var/log/messages and the other outputed to my monitor (ttyv*). How can I omit the output to my ttyv? I am used to Red Hat's behaviour in that messages from kernel never shows up on my console... # gnuls -Al --color=auto /lkm total 0 What's the difference between /lkm and /modules? I've recompile my kernel and now, /kernel size is only 1223818 (almost half of the generic stock kernel). Is this size not too big? Sorry, cause I'm used to aproximately only 400 KB size of /boot/vmlinuz. Are there other ways I should now to reduce my /kernel size and in the mean time, keep my hardware working properly. I've included options LKM in my kernel config, but that doesn't seem to reduce the size. Or... am I missing some steps similar to make modules ; make modules_install in Linux? I hope I didn't skip steps similar to that when I compiled my /kernel. I do config NAMEOFMYKERNEL ; cd ../../compile/NAMEOFMYKERNEL ; make depend; make ; make install Oh yeah... this really bugs me ;) What's the meaning of make world? # modstat modstat: /dev/lkm: Device not configured What should I do to make it work? I'm using FreeBSD 3.4 on Intel Pentium 200 MMX... How do I start single user mode? And... one last question... for the moment ;) I have an Intel Pentium III 450 MHz running on ASUS P3BF motherboard with ATX power supply. I have included APM support in my /kernel. But everytime I halt my system it won't shutdown automatically. Is this normal? Thanks a lot... Regards, John Indra -- ICQ UIN #26095019 Really exited with FreeBSD =P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Be the best! iD8DBQE4dxrRxcp0HIxafmQRAsPXAKCluDxxdOXOcz4mEbJ9sgukpoeggACghB3q JbZ6gW0Yq/qSZJJZTqTfY3c= =wnX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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