From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 12:25:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCD537B417 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b149.otenet.gr [212.205.244.157]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KJPF5q003325; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:25:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KJPD78002424; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:25:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3KFntnx001379; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:49:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:49:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Todd Ross Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two quick questions (man pages and tcsh) Message-ID: <20020420154955.GA1199@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020420133926.E841C37B41A@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020420133926.E841C37B41A@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On 2002-04-20 08:41, Todd Ross wrote: > Howdy, > > I have two (what I hope are) quick questions. > > 1) Why does tcsh store its config files in two places (/.cshrc and > /etc/csh.cshrc). I guess you mean /root/.cshrc and /.cshrc there. What you noticed is done because tcsh will try to read .tcshrc from "$HOME/.tcshrc" and when you run your machine single-user HOME is not set. > and the other is used for all of the other accounts in the system. > I'm just wondering the reasoning behind it. I'd guess it has > something to do with when you boot into single user mode? > 2) Why do some man pages have (4) or (2) after them? For example ... usb(4). Because they live under /usr/share/man/man4 instead of /usr/share/man/man1 where ``section 1'' manual pages live. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message