From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 26 15:41:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B5D14D25 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA11442; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:41:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:41:32 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Rick Hamell wrote: # # > And here is where we as a volunteer project need your help. Pick # > any part of the system, play around with it, tweak some knobs, # > write up what you've learned and send it to us. :) # # I have been working on it. :) My problem is that I'm am still from Great! # the DOS world. I have a hard time thinking like a Unix person still, # mostly because I don't know how to do so. Secondly, pretty much jumping in # feet first I know I'm making mistakes that may cause problems down the # road, We've all been there. I'm still there is many respects and I have been using Unix for a long time. The key is to not get discouraged. # i.e. when I install a package, where should I download the file too? I usually put mine in /usr/ports/packages/All. # Does it matter? Not really. Though if you ever decide to build packages yourself the default .mk files will put things in /usr/ports/packages/*. # Where should I untar it too? You don't need to untar it, pkgadd(1) will do that for your. In fact, there are a whole host of package management tools that make life alot easier. # How much swap space is enough? Enough for what? # Those are the kinds of questions I have. I've read a few system # administrator books. Mostly I learned to do regular backups and to make # sure I have adequete power backup system. Is there a Zen for Unix # Administrators? :) Stored away in many thousands of Unix sysadmins heads, but not on paper anywhere that I know of. Though I've heard good things about Greg Lehey's book. # # # Rick # # www.grendal.org # # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message