Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:01:08 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Learning and learning.... Message-ID: <20001221000108.A13270@home.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20001220230749.01caa5b0@intranet.com.mx>; from jbiquez@icsmx.com on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:24:01PM -0600 References: <5.0.2.1.2.20001220230749.01caa5b0@intranet.com.mx>
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:24:01PM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > I'm sorry if this sound so stupid. There are no stupid questions... as long as you do the reading. > I'm using a PII 350Mhz, 128RAM,1 Hd 8GB for studying and learning. I wanted > to upgrade to the latest version of sendmail, so I entered to the FreeBSD includes sendmail by default. It is part of the base system. What version of FreeBSD are you running? If you are running 4.1.1 or 4.2, then you should have the latest version already installed. > FreeBSD.ORG site, looked for the port and that pointed me to the site of > SENDMAIL.ORG. I downloaded the archive of the latest version to my machine > but then I felt very stupid since I didn't know what else to do, I mean, I > know I had to compile and install the program but I didn't knew what to do > (I have to confese that I just wanted to use the command pkg_add to install > it).... Just to be short after 5 minutes of that my machine wasn't able to > run sendmail anymore since I did something when I tried to installed that > cause that the sendmail daemon coul not start. I don't know what happened here. Normally, when you download a tarred file, you have to untar it and uncompress it. > Just after reading a lot in the book and the sendmail site my sendmail is > running but still I'm not sure if it is working that new version .... I > learned a very hard lesson... I need to know some more basic things on how > things really work there (FreeBSD). I know that maybe could take me years > but I want to become profficient with this great Operating System and I > commited to learn and study all the material I could. > My question is: Good! > For stupid and slow people like me , What would be your suggestions on the > steps to follow to learn the basics ? Any Internet resources for very slow > begginers? Any other books?. I started with Linux, but the same thing will apply. 1) Read anything that you can get your hands on. 2) Don't be afraid of the system. Make backups of important things, and then play with it. 3) Ask questions on the lists. The people here are a great resource. HTH, Victor Cardona vcardona@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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