Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:40:33 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to .conf and disaster? Message-ID: <19990708224033.A4602@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <377FA181.4F5DB734@charm.net>; from Dutch Collins on Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:01:37PM -0400 References: <377FA181.4F5DB734@charm.net>
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On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:01:37PM -0400, 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).
You could. But you probably don't want to.
By and large, where FreeBSD diverges with the BSD defined in Nemeth it's
for a good reason. If you change it back you lose whatever benefits
the change bought in the first place, and you make your system subtly
different from other FreeBSD systems out there -- this will probably
turn around and bite you in the future.
It's probably simpler to go through the Nemeth book with a pencil,
annotating the bits that are not the same in FreeBSD, possibly indicating
the appropriate man page to read instead.
Hope that helps,
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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