From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 19:56:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com (svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com [12.111.148.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9352537B40A for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:56:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@peak.org) Received: from associate (cpe-gan-24-136-37-161-cmcpe.ncf.coxexpress.com [24.136.37.161]) by svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f7J2uBj09229; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:56:11 -0400 From: "Timothy J. Luoma" To: "Eric Lam" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: FreeBSD System Utilities? Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:56:05 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal 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 > I'm a NT/2K Server person, transitioning to FreeBSD. Is there > some type of Scandisk/Disk Doctor for FreeBSD? Or I shouldn't even > bother needing one? Well I'm new to FreeBSD, but in general in Unix 'fsck' ("file system checker" IIRC) will run when needed. > And should I install some type of antivirus for FreeBSD? FreeBSD is anti-virus ;-) For the most part, there are no Unix "virii" but you can protect yourself somewhat by not running as root (makes it harder to bugger your system). There are definitely Unix trojan horse programs out there, but not the type of virii you are used to in the Windows world HTH TjL -- TjL Using FreeBSD 4.3 stable on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop which dual boots with Windows 2000. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message