From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 12 7:57: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B911537B42C for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14niWo-0002N2-00; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:56:58 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3CEuwY93220; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:56:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:56:57 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Leonard Zettel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation opportunities (Was: resolv.conf overwrite Message-ID: <20010412155657.B93077@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <3AD5BE40.2E1E9AA7@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3AD5BE40.2E1E9AA7@acm.org>; from zettel@acm.org on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:40:00AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Leonard Zettel [010412 15:41]: > ------ > Total so far $219.94 > > dhclient is not in the index of the other books listed above and I > don't recall a reference to it in any of the documentation I have > perused. man -k dhclient. Trust me, BSD manpages actually make sense. They're up to date, accurate and well-referenced. If you've ever used Linux, this will come as a great surprise to you (it did to me). > .....responsibility from about 1963-1995. As a market, > I am probably typical of a hopelessly small segment (and a darn > curmudgeon to boot "Sonny, I remember when..."). "We had to bang zeroes together just to get the ones?" > ......that. Right now I would be happy knowing > exactly what scripts, files etc. my system is accessing when it > boots up and how to read them. What logs are produced and how to > read them. Yes, I can read C code. I feel I can learn to read > scripts (hopefully with the help of some of the stuff I have bought). Then nothing's stopping you. read the manpages on the loader, then on init, then on rc. You can sit down with a few xterms and follow the entire boot sequence from beginning to end. As the bald guy said: "Welcome to the real world". ( "a.s.r - we took *both* pills" ) -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message