From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 17:00:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07192 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com (cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07122 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rpratt@azstarnet.com) Received: from win95.rpratt.azstarnet.com (dialup05ip098.tus.azstarnet.com [169.197.32.98]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.8.5-nerd/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA23060 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:00:22 -0700 (MST) X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981005165643.007b56d0@pop.azstarnet.com> X-Sender: rpratt@pop.azstarnet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:56:43 -0700 To: From: Randy Pratt Subject: Re: First commands In-Reply-To: <19981005102413.55925@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:24 AM 10/5/98 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: >Next month I'll be putting something together to help unix-newbies >deal with the horror of their first FreeBSD prompt :-) I'm new to the list as well as FreeBSD. Seeing that first prompt (Friday, February 27, 1998, at 2:04 PM MST) was as much of a thrill as hearing the first radio station on a crystal radio I built fourty years ago. Of course, I didn't know what to do next or the knowledge to fully understand what the man pages were telling me. Greg Lehey's book kept me moving in the right directions and a unix/shell basics book was certainly handy. I'm sure I spent more time reading than anything else. The original list posted has most of the shell commands I used in the first couple of weeks to get my system running with X and few applications. The additional ones I used that have been mentioned already were: mount umount shutdown tar fsck I needed to make a few symbolic links, so perhaps include: ln I used vi as a text editor but any would serve the purpose for making changes to configuration files. Randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message