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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:25:18PM -0500, Phil wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>
>> I'm just starting out with FreeBSD and very new to this environment. 
>> Could someone please point me in the direction of where I would find 
>> a "should- do" or "must-do" list after installing FreeBSD 10.0 for 
>> the first time. The key points would be security (the box is 
>> connected to the net)
>
> Read security(7).

Just for the record, because I didn't understand this right away when I 
was starting out: when someone says to read foo(11) the relevant command 
to type would be `man 11 foo`. In this case, `man 7 security`.

HTH.

[mucho snippo]

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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