From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 19 0:14:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8763E14FBF for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990419065645.UTAQ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:56:45 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:55:05 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary - how to guides Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <371A551F.B4FC1EFB@vma.verio.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990419065645.UTAQ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18 Apr 99, at 17:56, Pete Vanderburgh wrote: > "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote: > > > How much is too much? Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is > > over my head and almost discouraging. > > Agreed! Does it help if I say I'm a newbie? Sure, I've used computer for 20+ years, but I've only used FreeBSD for less then 12 months. > I am curious about what you mean exactly by 'on top of UNIX'. I too, am > *quite* the newbie in regard to UNIX and FreeBSD. I'm certainly not on top of it. In some areas, I'm quite confident of my abilities. For example, installation and configuration. But when it comes to file/directory permissions, finding out who's done what, etc, I'm lost. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message