From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 15:44:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0044F37B419 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic.rit.edu ([129.21.10.175]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KD9KFWQDVIDMPEQV@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:44:32 EST Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:44:20 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time In-reply-to: <002a01c1a135$b1e99b20$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Philip Pereira Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020119182704.03b8b7f0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> 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 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 -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message