Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 17:45:55 -0700 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help Message-ID: <20110509004555.GG3538@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <C9F6205F-EFEC-484C-B97E-01046AF89502@earthlink.net> References: <C9F6205F-EFEC-484C-B97E-01046AF89502@earthlink.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Quoth John or Judy Hixson on Sunday, 08 May 2011: > At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore taking my chances. > > I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in anticipation of eventually admining a FBSD server for my church office network. I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 on an old PC and am trying to follow along while reading Michael Lucas' book (2nd ed.). Right now my problem is with the command line. Lucas make a statement as follows: "If you want to see a comprehensive list of loader variables, check the default configuration file." Since there is no command "check", I have no idea what to use. What command will "check" a file? What I really want to do is "view" the file, but that command doesn't exist either. Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even though I'm logged in as root I'm getting a "permission denied" return when I list a file (e.g. /etc/fstab) and press enter. > > This no doubt the wrong place for simple questions like these so someone PLEASE tell me where better to go. Thank you. > > John Hixson_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" For viewing or editing a file, what you want is a text editor. I use vim, but it really isn't designed for beginners. Whatever editor you decide to use, I would advise reading up on it before jumping into text files. To list files in a directory, the command is 'ls'. Type 'man ls' to get full documentation. In fact, for most Unix commands, 'man' is your friend. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterling@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNxzlDAAoJEIpckszW26+R0dAIAIpqm9jJlyd9LF5MG6VWoF9N GZf1Ix696LQON+WEMhzVNw5DM61YU+FIQ/IHj09oKaKuDPU1m8elzfRsdT25eKJh gCQ+spiGcKoBFOARMFKosR0U9D67ZglGw191yQV6yFErtkvJLD0ofUNizIVPxrSS hDUWuPHeLfIc/IGCmM9Qn04XwwqfBBW75eMJeNfPOo1AZ+6knJvE0ZynU0npdILF cCjRLtjU9GbKg8x5MQZesnEYXzVZkNRBmjykUYydl8k+AqMlzefHa8rSRhPemiNX ToU24dHqLIyuXKlW/C0thb5rYQlR3zbHwGh9OfbAFwaQfIehb4xhgMROYEz9xEY= =Gs7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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