From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 11 10:38: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533CB37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from claire.namodn.com (namodn.com [209.0.100.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E1843EE5 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkj@namodn.com) Received: from nkj by claire.namodn.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 182KaK-00045P-00; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:01:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:01:48 -0700 From: Nick Jennings To: Mike Hogsett Cc: Robert Warning , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. Message-ID: <20021017170148.B14841@namodn.com> References: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com>; from hogsett@csl.sri.com on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:24:59PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:24:59PM -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD > > world? [...] > Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities > (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad > and nothing the man pages won't help you with. Not to mention, the init levels are extremely different. Linux uses System V style runlevels, while BSD uses the much simplified BSD style init sequence. So you don't have your /etc/init.d or /etc/rc#.d directories. Instead you have a unified boot process. An /etc/rc.conf, (and /etc/rc.*) for base system boot instructions. As well as a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ for other packages. Which brings me to another point, which is that BSD handles packages differently than *most* (keyword, most) Linux distributions. Every package is kept out of the base system (meaning, it is installed in either, /usr/local/ or /usr/X11R6/). The base system is BSD itself, and is rebuilt and installed from source /usr/src/* including the kernel. They are not packages. Hope that helped. -- Nick Jennings nkj@namodn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message