*BSD News Article 97915


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jgaines.demon.co.uk!jgaines.demon.co.uk!news
From: Jeff Gaines <jeff@jgaines.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Newbie Questions
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:24:00 +0100
Message-ID: <33A70070.59268F83@jgaines.demon.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: jgaines.demon.co.uk
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jgaines.demon.co.uk [158.152.92.14]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i686)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Lines: 15
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43056

I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 (Walnut Creek CD) to compare with
Slakware Linux.
Can I have some advice on the following:
How do I get a colour directory listing equivalent to the Linux ls
--color=tty?
How do I set my screen / console up to use a higher resolution e.g.
132x43 - I use liloconfig to do this in Slakware.
Is there an equivalent of liloconfig to set boot options in FreeBSD?
Why do messages, such as log on messages, splurge across all the open
consoles? It makes a real mess of programs running on those consoles.
Finally where should I have looked for the answers to these questions so
I needn's have asked here :-))

--
Jeff Gaines Heckfield Hampshire UK