From owner-freebsd-www Thu Jul 10 21:48:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15793 for www-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA15786 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:48:12 -0700 (PDT) From: SpectreTouch@earthlink.net Received: from iceland.it.earthlink.net (iceland-c.it.earthlink.net [204.119.177.28]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21805 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gsyphers.earthlink.net (1Cust124.Max3.Santa-Clara.CA.MS.UU.NET [153.34.136.252]) by iceland.it.earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA12043 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970710214712.007d6750@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: spectretouch@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:47:15 -0700 To: www@freebsd.org Subject: explanations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm running FreeBSD v.2.2.2, and as I'm new to both UNIX and FreeBSD, I've been using your handbook quite a bit. However, I have noticed that there are quite a few differences between what the handbook says my system has and what is actually there. I know that with many release versions it is difficult to coordinate everything, but as I'm running the generic kernel of a fairly widespread version, I was surprised. Some examples include the fact that I have no sysconfig file anywhere, let alone in /etc. I also have no /etc/resolv.conf, both of which the handbook seems to assume I have. If I am expected to create those files, I would appreciate something that tells me that. There are also differences, rather large ones, between what the handbook says (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook179.html) and what the tutorial says (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp19.html) the contents of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf are. I'm sure everything seems clear to you, but with absolutely no experience with the system all, the various and sometimes contradictory messages confuse me in what I presume is a very simple exercise - namely to connect to the internet through my ISP, Earthlink. I appreciate what you have done in creating this whole system, and I am amazed that it is free, but I hope in the future explanations could be a bit clearer for people like me. Thanks- SpectreTouch@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~spectretouch