From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 17: 9:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3086E37B8BA for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7F09Bt08685; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:09:11 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bruce Petro Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD host open for guests? Message-ID: <20000814170911.T4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <384968834.966293810966.JavaMail.root@web142-mc.mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <384968834.966293810966.JavaMail.root@web142-mc.mail.com>; from bpetro@usa.com on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:56:50PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bruce Petro [000814 16:45] wrote: > I have FreeBSD at home, but I'm reading the Questions mail at work. From > time to time, it would help to login to a FreeBSD server to try a man page > to check something. > > So, while I can live without it, I just thought I'd ask - are we allowed to > login as guest or anonymous to FreeBSD.org or is there some other friendly > host out there? Again, just to do things like man pages and so forth. > > I just thought of another option - I think there are some HTML versions of > man pages, but still I think it would be a bit quicker to just login, do a > man, and log out - so I'll leave the question open - does anyone out there > know of a machine somewhere for limited guest privileges? Not that I know of, but you can browse the manpages here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi Of course if you install FreeBSD you can have your own box to telnet into and read manpages, a bit more work but more worthwhile. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message