From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 0: 8:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1236237B406 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b083.otenet.gr [195.167.121.211]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f61787F03868; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:08:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f616iSH02449; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 09:44:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 09:44:27 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jun Beldad Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with freebsd Message-ID: <20010701094427.A2141@hades.hell.gr> References: <001601c10064$62129880$0c0cdca5@dost.gov.ph> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001601c10064$62129880$0c0cdca5@dost.gov.ph>; from nuj@dost.gov.ph on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:24:54PM +0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ## Moved from -newbies to -questions. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:24:54PM +0800, Jun Beldad wrote: > hello to all > > I'm using FreeBSD 3.2 as a mail server. I have a few questions in mind, please help. > > 1. users always see "FreeBSD/i386 (localhost.localdomain) (ttyp1)" , > which file should I modify so that it would appear something like > "Welcome to ....." ? You need to change the hostname of the machine. Set this by editing /etc/rc.conf and adding a line: hostname="your.full.host.and.domain.name.here" or changing an existing hostname line, if one already exists. > 2. recently, the root receives mail from "root(Cron Dameon)" with > subject : Cron root@localhost /usr/libexec/atrun, what am i suppose > to do ? What do you mean, "what are you supposed to do"? It's mail. Read it, would be a reasonable thing. Forward it to some mailbox that you regularly check, is another idea. It's actually up to you to choose :) > 3. I need "file" command that supports "-b" but I can't seem to > download it from any ftp site suggested in the man pages... anyone > who knows where else can i download it? What is your -b option supposed to do. From the manpage of file(1) on my FreeBSD system I read: OPTIONS -b Do not prepend filenames to output lines (brief mode). Is that what you mean? If not, reaed the manpage of file with `man file' and see if some other option does what you are trying to do. Ciao, -giorgos PS: The -newbies list is not for posting questions. Try posting to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org next time you want to ask something about FreeBSD. Before posting to -questions though, it would be a very good idea to read what Greg Lehey has written about using the list effectively. Point your browser at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message