From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 00:52:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F72616A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:52:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C74D43D4C for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:52:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE8004IMT2TYV70@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:52:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE800AF8T2TSR80@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:52:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net (S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.146.24]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IE8007BOT2T26@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:52:05 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:40 -0800 From: David Armour In-reply-to: <20050330155449.GC65864@slackbox.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200503311652.40408.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Organization: dfarmour.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050330155449.GC65864@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Subject: Re: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:52:06 -0000 hello Roland, On Wednesday, March 30, 2005: 07:54, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 06:45:10PM -0800, Andrew Heyn wrote: > > plugging your recommendation onto the command line produced: > > > > /etc/devfs.conf:perm xpt0 0666 #permissions are set properly at > > boot > A couple of months ago I put up the things I learnt from configuring my > FreeBSD box on a web page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ thank you for your reply. i had already bookmarked your web-page, and i credit it with a great portion of my still-limited understanding of what's going on inside this box of mine. > > > I'm pretty sure that searching google a little bit can help you with > > > UNIX basics. i agree google's a terrific resource, as is the Handbook, of which i do have a copy. i must be more of a visual need-to-watch-someone-else kinda learner, i guess, and which is a bit harder to do in isolation behind a computer screen. i still notice a big gap between what i can accomplish based on reading the Handbook, say, and what others here & elsewhere seem able to do/understand. thanks again.