Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:36:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Scott Northcutt <snorthcutt@1stresource.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ignorant newbie questions (resent) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951221163401.7942B-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199512211900.OAA04930@nameserver.1stresource.com>
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On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Scott Northcutt wrote: > (I think I sent this to the wrong place the first time. Please forgive if > you get 2. I've got the address straight now. --JSN) > > Greets all, > After much poring over of the FAQ file and the Handbook on the web > site, I find that I still have the following questions. Please pardon their > ignorance as I am new to this ballgame. > > 1) Silly me, I did not install the kernel sources (I guess most of the > /usr/src/sys area) and now I gotta recompile the kernel. I couldn't find > concise info on installing packages and I couldn't figure out what exactly I > needed to swipe from the FTP site. How do I get these quite necessary parts > of the directory tree onto my machine so that I can recompile? > grab *-RELEASE/src/ssys* into /tmp, and the install.sh file that is in the same directory. run 'install.sh', which will install the sources into /usr/src > 2) Wanting to work at home and telnet to my FreeBSD box at the office thru > my ISP dialup, I've dicovered that I "cannot login on terminal ttyp0". What > do I need to reconfigure so that pseudo terminals can login as easily as > physically connected terminals? > What login id are you trying to connect as? Since, by default, I can login to my machine remotely as a regular userid, I'll assume that you are atttempting to login directly to root? If so, don't...login as yourself and su from there Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc
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