From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 20 19:08:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net (pm3-10-2.stratos.net [207.86.134.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13098 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) From: drifter@stratos.net Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA00881; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:08:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980620220854.B752@stratos.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:08:54 -0400 To: Chuck , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuration files References: <199806210040.UAA00290@capecod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806210040.UAA00290@capecod.net>; from Chuck on Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:40:29PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:40:29PM -0400, Chuck wrote: > Has anyone ever compiled an index of all the configuration files > needed to run a typical BSD site? Basically one line per file, > describing roughly the subsystem it affects. Reason I ask is > that I've been trying to locate whatever it is that tells my > xterm windows to do "US-ASCII" rather than "Latin-1" or "ISO 8859-1". > Pine often objects to this, and both less and more display extended > characters with circumflex notation, which I find irritating. XTerms by default use ISO 8859-1 charsets, don't they? In any case, if they do, but `less' doesn't print the letters correctly, try: /bin/sh$ export LESS=-f # default option to less that avoids # warning you that the ISO 8859-1 file # you want to print is a "binary" one. /bin/sh$ export LESSCHARSET=latin1 or /bin/csh% setenv LESS '-f' /bin/csh% setenv LESSCHARSET latin1 Put these in your .profile or .login to make the changes perm- anent. I don't know if `more' can do this. $ man less for more details. Sorry I didn't answer your main question, but I think you have to do this with less regardless. -drifter > > I'd ask the second question only, but it looks as if that should > lead to the broader question. I try RTFM, but each configuration > file has its own peculiar way of hiding. > > I'd consider building a database of files I encounter building a new > FreeBSD (I'm overdue, running 2.2.2R), but I'm not running a very > extended system and probably wouldn't encounter 1/10 of the files. > Has anyone done this? TIA! > -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message