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#! rnews 1868 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Q's Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 13:28:37 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 32 Message-ID: <308D4C75.1491FCC@FreeBSD.org> References: <46ivpu$ti1@news1.tacoma.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: "Steve M. Spiller" <kalinash@nwrain.com> Steve M. Spiller wrote: > 1) How do I keep the syslog messages from being echo'd to my > screen? Don't log in as root.. :-) > 2) Why do I have to put ./ infront of commands in my current > dir that aren't in my path? Because you're root, and it would be a security hole to have `.' in your PATH (imagine if somebody made a trojan horse called `ls' and you wandered into their directory and typed the command while root - that'd be the end of your security and possibly your entire system, depending on how malicious said cracker was). > 3) How do I get more virtual terminals? When I compiled the > kernel, it said 16, but I only get 3. vi /etc/ttys and turn more "on". > 4) I compiled in floppy tape support, and it gets recognized > at boot time, but when I try to use mt, it says something > like device not configured. You need to use `ft' for floppy tape, not mt. See the man page for ft. > 5) Are there any docs for the cern-httpd? Or is there another > one that compiles easily for FreeBSD? Apache HTTPD does a pretty good job! See the ports collection. -- Jordan