From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 6 07:53:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00808 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00801 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA21971; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA12317; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:53:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981006165337.63858@follo.net> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:53:37 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <199810060831.BAA28468@mailgate.cadence.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199810060831.BAA28468@mailgate.cadence.com>; from Duncan Barclay on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:30:44AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:30:44AM +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > I sat down and wrote up a small list of these, for new users. I > > hope to include this as part of the FOO.TXT files (if there is space > > available - I'm not sure if they go on the boot floppy), or at least > > somewhere easily visible. > > A few suggestions: > > DO use RCS for storing configuration files in /etc once your machine > is set up or write it down in a note book. Otherwise, you will forget > the majic one line change in /etc/. Many > configuration files in /etc include .local so use it. RCS might be a bit hard on the beginner; I moved it later and split this into two points. Do the following look OK? DO keep a notebook of which configuration changes you do as you first set up the machine; you _will_ find it useful. At some point, you may want to look at 'man rcsintro' for details of how you can have the machine remember it for you. DO separate out changes in /etc/.local whereever this applies - it will make updates much easier. The use of 'man rcsintro' instead of rcsintro(1) is intentional - I don't think we can expect beginners to understand the name(section) syntax. > Contentious ;-) > DONT use sendmail, use exim. Hmm, I don't think I'll include this in any official docs from the project ;-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message