Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:21:01 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> To: John Indra <m4v3r1ck@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions... Message-ID: <20000108052101.I584@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000108180905.A6865@bigfoot.com>; from m4v3r1ck@bigfoot.com on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:09:05PM %2B0700 References: <20000108180905.A6865@bigfoot.com>
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* John Indra <m4v3r1ck@bigfoot.com> [000108 04:35] wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list readers... =) > > I'm new to both this list and FreeBSD. I have a lot of questions and I > have decided to ask them in one long mail ( *sorry* ) considering waste > caused by my message headers if I ask one question in one mail. > > First of all, I'm Indonesian, so English definitely is not my mother > language. Thus I beg your pardon for my vocab and grammatical errors. > > I'm a novice sysadmin. I administer a small network with Red Hat Linux > as the core server (web, mail, and database). Have been interested with > FreeBSD for a long time, so I decided to give it a try. I had my FreeBSD > CD-ROM on Dec 31st 1999 and decided to delete a Linux partition and > place FreeBSD over it. Know what really attract me to try FreeBSD? The > daemon... ;) so... here's my first question: what's Mr D'mon name? I > can't find it on the FAQ... Maybe this question (and answer) could be > included in the future FAQ ;) > > Ok... now... to get to real business... > > I understand that there is a runlevel concept in Linux. I believe that > this was inherited from SysV. Are there any runlevel concept on FreeBSD > or *BSD variant in general? > What is the boot sequence in FreeBSD? Till now, this is what I > understand: > Bootstrap -> /kernel -> /sbin/init -> read /etc/rc* -> invoke gettys -> > login. Is my understanding correct? Yes, however you have a couple of 'hooks' you can use, firstly, /etc/rc.conf can have variables (NOT commands) put into it, look at /etc/default/rc.conf for examples. Also, /etc/rc.local can hold local startup commands, and /usr/local/etc/rc.d can hold scripts to be run at startup (they must end in .sh) > AFAIK all Linux distribution use bash as their default shell. So when I > got csh as my default root shell, I panic! Can anyone teach me how to > use csh? I don't need to know the details, I just need to know whether > csh can cycle through all the commands I've executed (in bash, I can use > the up and down arrow), and does csh support command/filename > completion. If yes, how do I get it? (what key do I need to press? In bash, > we use tab to complete command/filename) csh has command completion, it's a bit different to use, I would suggest check out the csh manpage, however bash is made available via the ports and packages systems so you shouldn't have any trouble installing those. > When I login as root on ttyv*, or if I login as normal user and then I > su - to root, I got double "message". One outputed to /var/log/messages > and the other outputed to my monitor (ttyv*). How can I omit the output > to my ttyv? I am used to Red Hat's behaviour in that messages from > kernel never shows up on my console... Check the manpage for syslog and syslog.conf they should be able to guide you through this. > > # gnuls -Al --color=auto /lkm > total 0 > What's the difference between /lkm and /modules? lkms are the old module system, modules are the new ones, it has to do with our not-so-recent switch from a.out to ELF, don't expect lkms to work. > I've recompile my kernel and now, /kernel size is only 1223818 (almost > half of the generic stock kernel). Is this size not too big? Sorry, > cause I'm used to aproximately only 400 KB size of /boot/vmlinuz. afaik Linux compresses thier kernels... why? FreeBSD can, but doesn't. > Are > there other ways I should now to reduce my /kernel size and in the mean > time, keep my hardware working properly. I've included options LKM in my > kernel config, but that doesn't seem to reduce the size. Or... am I > missing some steps similar to make modules ; make modules_install in > Linux? I hope I didn't skip steps similar to that when I compiled my > /kernel. I do config NAMEOFMYKERNEL ; cd ../../compile/NAMEOFMYKERNEL ; > make depend; make ; make install You're beating your head against the wall for no reason, having a kernel that size is not a big deal. > Oh yeah... this really bugs me ;) What's the meaning of make world? http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html > > # modstat > modstat: /dev/lkm: Device not configured > What should I do to make it work? I'm using FreeBSD 3.4 on Intel Pentium > 200 MMX... use kldstat instead. > > How do I start single user mode? interrupt the boot-loader and type: 'boot -s' > > And... one last question... for the moment ;) > I have an Intel Pentium III 450 MHz running on ASUS P3BF motherboard > with ATX power supply. I have included APM support in my /kernel. But > everytime I halt my system it won't shutdown automatically. Is this > normal? not sure, can other operating systems halt the machine? what command are you using to 'shutdown' ? > > Thanks a lot... > best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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