Hello Newbs

[clayton rollins]

>Mike <sublist at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>I havn't seen any traffic on this list since I signed up for it so I 
>thought I >would send a message in a bottle and see what comes back.I have 
>been using >FreeBSD for a couple weeks and I really like it.I was using 
>Linux before so it >was not much of a shock making the switch.Actually I 
>still have linux on another >partition.I havn't booted it in a while 
>though.The only thing I havn't got >working yet is my usb quickcam 
>express.I am using cvsup to update my sources and >portupgrade to compile 
>the programs I am using.Last night I ran make world for >the first time.It 
>was pretty cool.
>
>Mike

Hi mike,

Welcome to the community. (Too many great things about FreeBSD to list 
here...)

I mostly just wanted to add my own newbie experience from doing a make 
buildworld myself. While I thought everything had gone great throughout the 
process, I began to get some wierd errors from ipfw. (ipfw list caused a 
seg. fault, as did the security output for 'passwordless accounts'.)

After learning far more than any newbie wants to about the files in /etc, I 
finally found the solution buried deep in the ipfw man page. (Most of the 
way towards the end, there's a little paragraph stating that you have to set 
IPFW2=TRUE in /etc/make.conf before running the buildworld.)

It sounds like your right on track though. Good luck getting that quickcam 
up and running; and, good luck in all your endeavors.

Happy Hacking,
Clayton

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