Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:48:41 +0000 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> To: "Kave p.Ram" <hotkaveh@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 questions Message-ID: <377A5879.2A8BCDBD@csl.com> References: <19990630172240.44248.qmail@hotmail.com>
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"Kave p.Ram" wrote: > > Hi all :-) > > I'm kinda novice in FreeBSD and have 3 questions which I > really would be thankfull if any one could answer :) > here they are : > > 1.each time I turn on my box , it starts a getty process on a modem port : > bash$ ps ax | grep getty As far as I remember, you just comment out a line in /etc/ttys that refers to mgetty. Then kill any mgetty processes. but that was for a 2.2-7 system, not 3.X. > > 792 ?? S 0:00.07 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty cuaa1 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > #199 v1 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 > #200 v2 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 [snip] > ----------------------- > question Nr 2: > in Linux there's a command called `freeŽ which gives one the amount of > free memory on the system . but I can't seem to find it in FreeBSD. > what should I use instead ? You can use top, which gives you a screenfull at a time with system stats at the top of the terminal screen/window. Or vmstat, which is a couple of lines of output like free, but a little less readable. > ------------------------ > question Nr 3: > I have a soundblaster 16 on my machine. > but each time I try to play a *.mid or *.au or another format, > I get a message like "can't open /dev/sequenser , or /dev/sdb1 ". Pass ;). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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