From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 23: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0BF37B403 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA03563 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:55:14 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925B838302 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:01:11 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:01:11 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problems installing XFree86 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020626085655.W9544-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Victor Wang wrote: > Also, why do people always put a number in brackets after every command? For example, ls(1). BTW, yes, I am a newbie. Sorry, just one more comment. In fact, number in brackets is number of section for 'man' command (from 'manual'). Good example is, when you are talking about passwd command (to change password), you are talking about passwd(1). But when you are talking about file /etc/passwd (where information about users, and not passwords as for today:):) is stored), you are talking about passwd(5). To check about some command use 'man '. Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message