FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 06:45:10PM -0800, Andrew Heyn wrote:
> plugging your recommendation onto the command line produced:
> 
> /etc/devfs.conf:perm    xpt0    0666    #permissions are set properly at
> boot
> 
> ... which is still largely un-intelligible to me, at the moment. and which
> co-incides, oddly enough, with the moment at which i have to leave for work!
> dang! so i'll have to take another google around, later tonight...

A couple of months ago I put up the things I learnt from configuring my
FreeBSD box on a web page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/

It deals (among other things) with configuring the CD-ROM/RW/DVD
devices.

> > I'm pretty sure that searching google a little bit can help you with
> > UNIX basics.
> 
> there is a lot of stuff out there, i agree. making sense of it's another
> story though.

You might want to have a look at the Handbook that comes with FreeBSD,
especially chapter 3 (UNIX basics). There are also several good books on
FreeBSD available, see Appendix B of the Handbook.

You can find the english version of the handbook by pointing your
browser at /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html. It
is also available in plain text format;
/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.txt

Roland
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