From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 12:33:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5910037B416 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1986@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: 'Todd Ross' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: two quick questions (man pages and tcsh) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:33:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" 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 Todd Ross [mailto:brainlist@brainsick.com] > 1) Why does tcsh store its config files in two places (/.cshrc and > /etc/csh.cshrc). From my brief testing, it looks like one is > used for root > 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? Actually, the idea is that you may have some settings which should affect _all_ users, and some settings which are on a user by user basis. You could, for example, have a base path and prompt, which can be overridden on a user by user basis. > 2) Why do some man pages have (4) or (2) after them? For > example ... usb(4). The man pages are split into many separate sections. Thus, you can have the same item in several sections -- crontab comes to mind. Try doing man 1 crontab and man 5 crontab to see what I mean... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message