Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:44:20 -0500 From: Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Philip Pereira <info@wintellect.co.uk> Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020119182704.03b8b7f0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <002a01c1a135$b1e99b20$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> <uek7ueqieq.7ue@localhost.localdomain>
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>I always assumed that forums were to help people to gain an understanding
>and answers to problems - not make them feel worse because they don't fully
>understand the man page or the OS - or that they have to use the 'DATE'
>command to set the time - like that command really makes sense?
>
>I want to be a part of the FreeBSD community - but I need time to get there
>while I learn bits at a time.
Phil,
When I first became interested in UNIX systems about 5 years ago - I tried
Linux first, as I didn't really know about anything else - I had a decent
knowledge of computers in general, but had a heck of a time figuring out
how to do just about everything because I didn't know what commands I
needed for any given task. The man pages answered many questions, but that
would only help if I knew the name of the command.
A while later, someone introduced me to 'apropos.' (It's the same as 'man
-k'.) If you type 'apropos [keyword]' it will display a list of all man
page descriptions that contain that keyword. It's pretty flexible and will
save you a lot of guesswork. Read the apropos man page and you'll find
everything you need to know. (You need to build the 'whatis' database
before it works, so it won't work right out of the box.)
My apologies if you were aware of it already; the nature of your question
suggests you didn't know how to search for keywords. (Or maybe you were
just looking for every keyword under the sun except for the correct one. :)
You've undoubtedly solved your original problem already, but hopefully this
will help you later on!
Matt
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