Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:01:48 -0700 From: Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com> To: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> Cc: Robert Warning <cleeker@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. Message-ID: <20021017170148.B14841@namodn.com> In-Reply-To: <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com>; from hogsett@csl.sri.com on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:24:59PM -0700 References: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com>
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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
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