From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 8 16:23:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E4D14EB6 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-156.charm.net [209.143.116.156]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28265; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 19:23:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <378532A3.C0C8D6E4@charm.net> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:22:11 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to .conf and disaster? References: <377FA181.4F5DB734@charm.net> <19990708224033.A4602@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > > 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> Hi, I sort of 'figgered' that it may be system admin. suicide. Did not think of marking up the book with man page references, cool. After I get the *big* scsi drive I'll be back in operation. thanks, -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message