From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 23:45:19 2005 Return-Path: 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 388DC16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.aheyn.com (lifestylecomm.com [66.9.27.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C4743D49 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:45:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aheyn@lifestylecomm.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.aheyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9F2181469 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:46:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.aheyn.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lifestylecomm.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58657-10 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:46:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from AREILLPC (ns.jmsent.com [66.9.27.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.aheyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29497181468 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:46:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Andrew Heyn" To: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:45:10 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lifestylecomm.com Subject: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:45:19 -0000 And it's off to the list! -----Original Message----- From: David Armour [mailto:dfarmour@myrealbox.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:40 PM To: Andrew Heyn Subject: Re: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE hello, thank you for your response. > Regarding grep, you got it half right. that is just *so* ME! :c) plugging your recommendation onto the command line produced: /etc/devfs.conf:perm xpt0 0666 #permissions are set properly at boot ... which is still largely un-intelligible to me, at the moment. and which co-incides, oddly enough, with the moment at which i have to leave for work! dang! so i'll have to take another google around, later tonight... > grep's command line can be made to look less scary like: > grep yes. that helps. i did sort of think of it in those terms. > or grep -ri "something" /etc/* which searches recursively, and ignores > What you did when you didnt tell grep what file to use for input was i mis-read the manpage. > tell it to get info from the terminal (standard input)! Control-C would > quit grep, or control-d would tell grep "end of file" and stop grep. yes, i used crtl-c to quit. didn't know about crtl-d though. > I'm pretty sure that searching google a little bit can help you with > UNIX basics. there is a lot of stuff out there, i agree. making sense of it's another story though. thanks v. much for your help.