Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:32:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> To: Scott Brown <skb@icey.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions, questions... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970721231623.419A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it> In-Reply-To: <33D3B39E.1A3F@icey.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Scott Brown wrote: > How can I login as root from a remote location? Put yourself in the wheel group, login as yourself and then su to root. Also, note that this is not so secure. You should have a look at the ssh port, which is an encrypting replacement of rlogin/rsh/telnet > Is there an easy way to create a new account? man adduser, man rmuser > Can FreeBSD support my old Thomas-Conrad 5045 Ethernet adapter? just put your card in and try ;-) I mean: have a look at the output of dmesg and in /var/var/messages to see if your card is recognized. > How do I get Apache running, since sysinstall can't find it? it should be /usr/local/sbin/httpd; if you can't find it, you can simply get the package (eg via your browser or via ftp) and then use pkg_add > If anyone knows of a good way to start learning this stuff, I'd like to > hear it. I'd love to get my hands on something like a big, heavy, > 1000-plus-page Unix system administrator's guidebook, if anyone cares to > recommend a title. Who says that you need a 1000+ pages book to learn something well? K&R "The C programming language" is 272 pages! ;-))) Anyway, buy _THE_ book: E. Nemeth, UNIX System Administration Handbook, Prentice-Hall. Marco Molteni Computer Science student at the Universita' di Milano, Italy. "The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things".
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