From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 17 2:21:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF1937B401 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b026.otenet.gr [195.167.121.154]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8H9LKd23352; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:21:20 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8H8pSQ06621; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:51:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:51:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: couple of install ques. Message-ID: <20010917115127.D5577@hades.hell.gr> References: <3BA6869A@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA6869A@operamail.com>; from leegold@operamail.com on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:40:12PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org leegold wrote: > FreeBsd 4.0, > > during intall FreeBSd asked if my machine is be a leafnode? > I said no. Don't know about this one. > At a later date I want to try to get another pc > to connect to my isp via this machine, so, did I do "right"? How is it going to be connected to your ISP? By dialup? By some type of DSL? > maybe a related ques: > I went into the config menu that the install let's one see, > as a last "check" before commiting to the install. The > gateway entree was checked - what's that do/config. is a > daemon or service turned on? The gateway is where your computer is directly connected to, when you are connected to your ISP. Basically the computer ``through'' which you access any computer connected to the Internet. Depending on *how* you are connecting to your ISP it may or may not be a wise idea to set this to a fixed IP address. > Will somebody please explain what the purpose of sendmail is? > I see it in all the textss, but never got simply it's purpose. > If i fetch mail from my ISP, then why do i need this running? Unix operating systems (FreeBSD being one of them) use Sendmail (or some other ``mail transfer agent'', Qmail and Postfix being two other popular choises of MTA programs) for sending outgoing mail. You might find that reading the FreeBSD Handbook a good idea. You can find it at http://www.freebsd.org by following the ``Documentation'' links of the first page. It's very good at clearing such things up. A nice book on the way that Unix systems work might also be a nice thing to look for. References of excellent two books on Unix system administration can be found in the ``new users'' article (at your usual place for FreeBSD documentation, www.FreeBSD.org). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message