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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 ;).


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