Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:59:02 -0600 (CST) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: (Hans N Gruber) <hounddog@juno.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help: Idiot on the loose Message-ID: <XFMail.961123151227.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <19961123.062533.4671.0.hounddog@juno.com>
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On 12:25:11 hounddog@juno.com wrote:
> I managed to create a file called "first file" (yes, with a
>space), and cannot delete it as FreeBSD is treating as two files which
>don't exist.
Tell rm that "first file" is one filename the same way you told us:
nexgen: {1007} mkdir junk
nexgen: {1008} cd junk
nexgen: {1009} touch "first file"
nexgen: {1010} ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dkelly dkelly 0 Nov 23 14:57 first file
nexgen: {1011} rm "first file"
nexgen: {1012} ls -l
nexgen: {1013} cd ..
nexgen: {1014} rmdir junk
>Nextly, I created a user on the system (which is me), mainly
>because it seemed at the time (during install), that it was the thing to
>do. How do I log on as admin instead of user?
It was a good thing to do, to create a user account for yourself.
You can do a lot of damage logged in as root.
The "administration" account is named "root". Read /etc/passwd for
information on accounts your system has, but don't edit it with
anything other than vipw. You really need the online man pages as
no book from the library is going to do a perfect job of describing
any specific Un*x. The man pages are not that much overhead, yet
are not enough (either) to fully describe the system:
nexgen: {1028} cd /usr/share/man
nexgen: {1029} du -sk man*
1134 man1
300 man2
772 man3
298 man4
218 man5
112 man6
79 man7
563 man8
2 man9
Looks like 2.5M.
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