From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 16:18:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14896 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14891 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA24611; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Yimin Hsiao cc: "'FreeBSD Help'" Subject: Re: More Questions In-Reply-To: <01BC4EE3.C1B07140@yihsiao.extern.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Yimin Hsiao wrote: > 1. Is there any WRITTEN manual for FreeBSD? One that explains > everything, or close to everything? There are just too many commands in > FreeBSD and I just hope to at least be aware of their existance. A book, "The Complete FreeBSD", exists which contains notes from the Handbook and many manual pages. > 2. Are the messages displayed at the beginning of each boot-up stored > somewhere? I get this error > standard daemons: inetd cron printer sendmailroot... Recipient > names must be specified everything time I boot and the system just > freezes there until I press Ctrl-C. The name of the machine is defined > in /etc/hosts, and I modified my /etc/ host.conf to read You can press scroll-lock to scroll back the console. Sendmail problems will also appear in /var/log/maillog and perhaps the system messages log /var/log/messages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major