From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 4 14:27:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7FE14C1B for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14831; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <377FD1C9.5AFC9FB8@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:27:37 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dutch Collins Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to .conf and disaster? References: <377FA181.4F5DB734@charm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dutch Collins wrote: > > I thought I would ask about this before I started something that > could result in "oops"; > > Would I regret changing .conf, rc., and others to match what I have > read in Nemeth. Example; directory names and places, and filenames. > The reason: I can give someone the book and say *read it* and baby-sit > madelyn (the pc). > > don't know where to send this, but maybe someone else has had such > an idea - maybe only a newbie would. Yes, it would be a really bad idea to change things like that. I'm not sure which book exactly that you are talking about, but FreeBSD has a number of quirks that make it different from other OS'es, even other unix OS'es. If you have a specific task that you are trying to accomplish you might want to formulate a question and send it to the freebsd-questions list. Otherwise, just changing things to make them look like the book is a bad idea. :) Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message