svn commit: r41175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Gavin Atkinson
gavin at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 12 13:49:25 UTC 2013
Author: gavin
Date: Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013
New Revision: 41175
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41175
Log:
This, mostly in order:
- Adds a trademark attribution for NetBSD
- Makes the spelling of DragonFly BSD consistent
- Mention x86-64 as a common non-FreeBSD name for the amd64 platform
- Fix several grammar and spelling issues
- Mention that SMP support is enabled in the default kernel
- Mention the sysv modules are default, but also available as modules
- Default to "xterm" not "cons25", note that <9 uses "cons25"
- Move one paragraph around so that "This" refers to the correct thing
- Replace a reference that still existed to UserConfig (!)
- Remove reference to the defunct "mbone" ports category
- Remove derogatory comment about Windows, untrue for ~13 years
Reviewed by: eadler
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Mar 12 13:30:14 2013 (r41174)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013 (r41175)
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
&tm-attrib.linux;
&tm-attrib.microsoft;
&tm-attrib.mips;
+ &tm-attrib.netbsd;
&tm-attrib.opengroup;
&tm-attrib.oracle;
&tm-attrib.sgi;
@@ -333,7 +334,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>DragonFlyBSD is a fork of &os; 4.8 that has
+ <para>DragonFly BSD is a fork of &os; 4.8 that has
since developed many interesting features of its own,
including the HAMMER file system and support for
user-mode <quote>vkernels</quote>.</para>
@@ -1126,7 +1127,9 @@
<answer>
<para>&arch.amd64; is the term &os; uses for 64-bit
- compatible x86 architectures. Most modern computers
+ compatible x86 architectures, sometimes referred to
+ as <quote>x86-64</quote> by other operating systems.
+ Most modern computers
should use &arch.amd64;. Older hardware should use
&arch.i386;. If you are installing on a
non-x86-compatible architecture select the platform
@@ -1695,7 +1698,7 @@
<answer>
<para>Yes. &os; divides support into multiple tiers.
Tier 1 architectures, such as i386 or amd64; are
- fully supported. Tiers 2 and 3 are supported on a
+ fully supported. Tiers 2 and 3 are supported on an
if-possible basis. A full explanation of the tier
system is available in the
<ulink
@@ -1721,7 +1724,8 @@
<para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT)
support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel
- with the <literal>options SMP</literal> feature enabled
+ with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled
+ by default,
will automatically detect the additional logical
processors.</para>
@@ -3861,10 +3865,6 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
<command>more</command> session, <command>du</command> and
<command>df</command> will agree.</para>
- <para>Note that Soft Updates can delay the freeing of disk
- space; you might need to wait up to 30 seconds for the
- change to be visible!</para>
-
<para>This situation is common on web servers. Many people
set up a &os; web server and forget to rotate the log files.
The access log fills up <filename class="directory">/var</filename>. The new
@@ -3873,6 +3873,10 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
restarting the web server program would free the file,
allowing the system to release the disk space. To prevent
this from happening, set up &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that Soft Updates can delay the freeing of disk
+ space; you might need to wait up to 30 seconds for the
+ change to be visible!</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@@ -4239,7 +4243,9 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
<para>If you intend to use a full screen editor such as
&man.vi.1; or &man.emacs.1;, you may also need to run
- <command>export TERM=cons25</command> so that these editors
+ <command>export TERM=xterm</command> on &os; 9.0+, or
+ <command>export TERM=cons25</command> on &os; 8.X
+ so that these editors
can load the correct data from the &man.termcap.5;
database.</para>
@@ -4358,9 +4364,12 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
<answer>
<para>Yes, &os; supports System V-style IPC, including shared
memory, messages and semaphores, in the
- <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. In a custom kernel,
- enable this support by adding the following lines to your
- kernel config.</para>
+ <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel. With a custom kernel,
+ support may be loaded with the <filename>sysvshm.ko</filename>,
+ <filename>sysvsem.ko</filename> and <filename>
+ sysvmsg.ko</filename> kernel modules, or
+ enabled in the custom kernel by adding the following lines to your
+ kernel config:</para>
<programlisting>options SYSVSHM # enable shared memory
options SYSVSEM # enable for semaphores
@@ -5160,10 +5169,10 @@ EndSection</programlisting>
<programlisting># Edit the existing entry for ttyv8 in /etc/ttys and change
# "off" to "on".
-ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure</programlisting>
+ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure
+ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure
+ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure
+ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure</programlisting>
<para>Use as many or as few as you want. The more virtual
terminals you have, the more resources that are used; this
@@ -5171,6 +5180,14 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"
also want to change the <literal>secure</literal> to
<literal>insecure</literal>.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Versions of &os; prior to 9.0 used the <quote>
+ cons25</quote> terminal type, and not <quote>
+ xterm</quote>. Existing entries in
+ <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> can be used on which to
+ base new additions.</para>
+ </note>
+
<important>
<para>If you want to run an X server you
<emphasis>must</emphasis> leave at least one virtual
@@ -5186,18 +5203,18 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"
allocation mentioned above and you wanted to run X, you
would change settings for virtual terminal 12 from:</para>
- <programlisting>ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure</programlisting>
<para>to:</para>
- <programlisting>ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm off secure</programlisting>
<para>If your keyboard has only ten function keys, you would
end up with:</para>
- <programlisting>ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
-ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
-ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm off secure
+ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm off secure
+ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm off secure</programlisting>
<para>(You could also just delete these lines.)</para>
@@ -5349,17 +5366,9 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"
<para>If this happens, disable the synchronization check code
by setting the driver flags for the PS/2 mouse driver to
- <literal>0x100</literal>. Enter
- <emphasis>UserConfig</emphasis> by giving the
- <option>-c</option> option at the boot prompt:</para>
-
- <screen>boot: <userinput>-c</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Then, in the <emphasis>UserConfig</emphasis> command
- line, type:</para>
-
- <screen>UserConfig> <userinput>flags psm0 0x100</userinput>
-UserConfig> <userinput>quit</userinput></screen>
+ <literal>0x100</literal>. This can be easiest achieved
+ by adding <screen>hint.psm.0.flags="0x100"</screen> to
+ <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> and rebooting.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@@ -5718,13 +5727,6 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Wo
programs are now available in the &os; Ports Collection as
<filename role="package">net/mrouted</filename>.</para>
</note>
-
- <para>MBONE tools are available in their own ports category,
- <ulink
- url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/mbone.html">mbone</ulink>.
- If you are looking for the conference tools
- <command>vic</command> and <command>vat</command>, look
- there!</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@@ -6038,9 +6040,7 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Wo
<para>Every &unix; process is completely firewalled off from
every other &unix; process. One process cannot modify the
- address space of another. This is unlike &windows; where a
- process can easily overwrite the address space of any other,
- leading to a crash.</para>
+ address space of another.</para>
<para>A &unix; process is owned by a particular userid. If
the user ID is not the <username>root</username> user,
@@ -6134,7 +6134,7 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Wo
search the archives <ulink
url="&url.base;/search/index.html">here</ulink> for an
extensive discussion. A more fine-grained mechanism
- is preffered.</para>
+ is preferred.</para>
</warning>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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