From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 10:42:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA16734 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:42:06 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA16728 ; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:42:04 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA13252 ; Mon, 10 Jul 95 13:42:02 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sVMpP-0004pHC; Mon, 10 Jul 95 13:41 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: FAQ; setting up a home system running FreeBSD To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Doc), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:41:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1350 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk There a legions of would be FreeBSD users out there who will have the same questions I am working through. I have been using Unix for many years... but not BSD, not even a current SysV, SysVR2! For my needs, networking is a serial port and a modem that does uucp to a dozen other sites, not just a smart host. I looked at sendmail 10 years ago, took two aspirin and got smail and never looked back. Demons (sp :-) what are they? Do I need them? You get the drift? The FAQ answers some of these questions but there are a hundred more that someone new to BSD will have. Subject: FAQ; How to set up a home computer running FreeBSD what are all of these things in /etc that end in "*d"? and do I need them? why? why not? sendmail ... reading the Bat book leaves me more confused than ever before ... how do I set up sendmail to know about a smart host and other local uucp connections? Host? I have a host? dummy network device? bind named gated timed duh...d, etc... Books? At the local computer store there are 473 books about SysV, 27 books about Linux, and one book about BSD 4.3. !?! Yes, if I get lots of really good suggestions, questions and answers, I will turn them into a FAQ and maintain it too! thanks -- Jan Isley If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes