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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:22:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        bunny <bunny@super.net.pk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INFORMATION ON FREE BSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910292121120.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <005501bf2286$7a6a1d80$a00582cb@intel>

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On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, bunny wrote:

> Sir,
> My questions are as follows:
> 
> Q1: How to check if the user is reading his/her mail?

probably just by running 'ps' and grep'ing for 'pine' or whatever
mail programs you have on your system.

> Q2: My /var is showing 74% . Please tell me how to control it.

man quota

> Q3: How to write different scripts in freeBSD? Please give me a real example script and how to do it. 

man sh

check out the /etc/rc* files for some interesting usage of 'sh'
scripting, check out the /usr/sbin/adduser script for an even more
interesting use of 'perl' scripting.

-Alfred



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