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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Scott Northcutt <snorthcutt@1stresource.com>
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Subject: Re: ignorant newbie questions (resent)
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On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Scott Northcutt wrote:

> (I think I sent this to the wrong place the first time.  Please forgive if
> you get 2.  I've got the address straight now.  --JSN)
> 
> Greets all, 
>         After much poring over of the FAQ file and the Handbook on the web
> site, I find that I still have the following questions.  Please pardon their
> ignorance as I am new to this ballgame.
> 
> 1) Silly me, I did not install the kernel sources (I guess most of the
> /usr/src/sys area) and now I gotta recompile the kernel.  I couldn't find
> concise info on installing packages and I couldn't figure out what exactly I
> needed to swipe from the FTP site.  How do I get these quite necessary parts
> of the directory tree onto my machine so that I can recompile?
>

	grab *-RELEASE/src/ssys* into /tmp, and the install.sh file that is
in the same directory.  run 'install.sh', which will install the sources
into /usr/src

> 2) Wanting to work at home and telnet to my FreeBSD box at the office thru
> my ISP dialup, I've dicovered that I "cannot login on terminal ttyp0".  What
> do I need to reconfigure so that pseudo terminals can login as easily as
> physically connected terminals?
>
	What login id are you trying to connect as?  Since, by default, I
can login to my machine remotely as a regular userid, I'll assume that you
are atttempting to login directly to root?  If so, don't...login as yourself
and su from there

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