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Date:      Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700
From:      John or Judy Hixson <johnorjudy@earthlink.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Newbie Needing Help
Message-ID:  <C9F6205F-EFEC-484C-B97E-01046AF89502@earthlink.net>

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At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until =
you know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very =
elementary stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions =
and am therefore taking my chances.

I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in anticipation of eventually admining =
a FBSD server for my church office network. I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 =
on an old PC and am trying to follow along while reading Michael Lucas' =
book (2nd ed.). Right now my problem is with the command line. Lucas =
make a statement as follows: "If you want to see a comprehensive list of =
loader variables, check the default configuration file." Since there is =
no command "check", I have no idea what to use. What command will =
"check" a file? What I really want to do is "view" the file, but that =
command doesn't exist either. Another problem that's throwing me for a =
loop is that even though I'm logged in as root I'm getting a "permission =
denied" return when I list a file (e.g. /etc/fstab) and press enter.

This no doubt the wrong place for simple questions like these so someone =
PLEASE tell me where better to go. Thank you.

John Hixson=



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