From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 21:58:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C13F16A418 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdferrell3@yahoo.com) Received: from web90605.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90605.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDBE213C4D1 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdferrell3@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 67725 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Feb 2008 21:58:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=TXFBj+XlZR5DNkwkTSWn4EhzZXMXFQs0XgxMjxNyvGqjed65G0u3l47UvpCsmo8Qlh9dnWnK6Auq7WxmycuARF3bh7Ln3nocvA47zulEyDQN0GwXP4RhSdksnXCGiizKk6Mh6/S74pb9KdbQ0TCOAbMZJyKziPyICHkZH5zNfnQ=; X-YMail-OSG: YIVYCeMVM1lj7rgc6PIMjX9s4ffk_xWW_KHYnvbN.5vzb5ohHA8tmoqGQc6I3bP5_.iBByZObtZxQ7HiyXImfYcfis.qb_tycw.w.oeu7D1JT3eJrec- Received: from [129.2.88.110] by web90605.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:58:38 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.162 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Ferrell To: gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <966552.65269.qm@web90605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Linux Users article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:58:40 -0000 > Hi John ! >> Is this what the documentation project had in mind? I welcome any comments, >> suggestions, changes, etc. >When you write: >"It is recommended that the root's default shell remain unchanged, though." >Maybe it would be nice to have a reference to the handbook. >Which I have perused, but couldn't find anything relevant. There is actually no >such recommendation in the HB :-( >The one I found was this: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT >pertaining to the "toor" account, which gives a nice explanation. >(slightly OT: we might want to add such an explanation in the HB ?) >I find the article pretty clear anyway :-) >Maybe we should also mention the fact that there is no longer a "/proc" on >procfs: FreeBSD uses "sysctl" instead ? (I know some GNU/Linux users who use >/proc in their shells to grab info on the system, they might like to know they >have to proceed differently). >What do you (all) think ? >cheers, >gregory Gregory, Thank you for you comments and suggestions. I have incorporated them into the article. http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html What else might be missing or need to be changed? Thanks, John