Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:56:45 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/5070: new FAQ entries Message-ID: <199711171356.OAA01110@panke.panke.de> Resent-Message-ID: <199711171410.GAA13193@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5070
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: new FAQ entries
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 17 06:10:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Wolfram Schneider
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
X. Who do I download the current FAQ?
X. Who do I download the current Handbook?
X. The Handbook is not plain text
X. How to become a FreeBSD Web Mirror?
X. I want translate the Handbook into friesian. How much do you pay?
X. How big is a full FreeBSD FTP mirror?
X. How big is the 2.2.5 Release?
X. Redirect ftp requests from one machine to another machine
X. Does FreeBSD 2.2.x support SMP?
X. Does FreeBSD support user names longer than 8 characters?
X. What is MFC?
X. How to I disable alt-ctl-del keys for a reboot?
X. Maximum RAM?
X. Maximum Filesystem size?
X. DOS to Unix formater?
X. How kill processes by name?
X. Who do I download the current FAQ?
The up-to-date FAQ is available from the FreeBSD Web Server or any
mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit latin1).
As PostScript (~344KB)
from the main Web Server
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ps
from the german Web mirror
fetch -h www.de.freebsd.org -f /FAQ/FAQ.ps
As plain ASCII text (208KB)
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ascii
As plain ISO 8859-1 text (208KB)
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.latin1
X. Who do I download the current Handbook?
The up-to-date handbook is available from the FreeBSD Web Server
or any mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit latin1)
As PostScript (1.7MB)
from the main Web Server
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ps
from the german Web mirror
fetch -h www.de.freebsd.org -f /handbook/handbook.ps
As plain ASCII text (1048KB)
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii
As plain ISO 8859-1 text (1048KB)
fetch http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.latin1
X. The Handbook is not plain text
The file is not straight text (extranious overprint, backspace,
etc characters). This may makes it difficult to RTFM under DOS.
To make a clean ascii copy:
$ col -b < inputfile > outputfile
X. How to become a FreeBSD Web Mirror?
See http://www.freebsd.org/mirror.html
X. I want translate the Handbook into friesian. How much do you pay?
Translation always welcome. But you don't get money.
FreeBSD is a non-commercial project. Ask Jordan
for a free CD-ROM copy or a t-shirt if want.
X. How big is a full FreeBSD FTP mirror?
6GB (?)
X. How big is the 2.2.5 Release?
4 x CD-ROMs, total 2.4GB.
X. Redirect ftp requests from one machine to another machine
You can redirect ftp requests with the socket(1) program. Replace the
ftp entry in foo.com:/etc/inetd.conf with socket. E.g.
ftp stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/socket socket ftp.foo.com ftp
and restart inetd: killall -HUP inetd
socket(1) is a FreeBSD Port, see /usr/ports/sysutils/socket.
X. Does FreeBSD 2.2.x support SMP?
No. Never. See the "SMP support page"
FreeBSD 3.0-current support SMP. Try -current or install a
3.0 SNAP
X. Does FreeBSD support user names longer than 8 characters?
Yes, in -current. But not in 2.2.x.
X. What is MFC?
The acronym MFC as seen in the cvs-* lists is an abbreviation
for "merged from -current"
X. How to I disable alt-ctl-del keys for a reboot?
a) define your own keymap table
b) disable the function shutdown_nice in src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c
X. Maximum RAM?
Theoretically 4Gigabyte. There are some servers which
runs with 1 Gibgbyte RAM.
X. Maximum Filesystem size?
A maximum of 8TB filesizes. It's actually bugs in the filesystem code
that causes the limit to be further restricted to 1TB (loss of
precision when doing blockno calculations).
X. DOS to Unix formater?
perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file ...
X. How kill processes by name?
See killall(1)
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