Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-01-31 14:56, Eric Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-01-30 13:42, Eric Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sysintall help that a Minimal install is "just the base
system." But what _functionality_ is provided by a *base
system*???
A short `overview' of a sort can be seen with:
# man 5 rc.conf
For every daemon, service, or option that you see in that
manpage, there is also a feature of the base system.
Good afternoon...
That's a very interesting idea. I guess that would cover (excuse my
un-certainty with the terminology here) the /kernel/ but not the
/userland/. For the /userland/ i assume I would still have to man
every executable - and then some - that I find?
No, many parts of the userland are configured by `rc.conf' options too.
Of course, an exchaustive list of all the binaries in */bin paths is,
uhm, a huge task. But you can also get an idea by:
$ apropos . | more
Also, the book _The Complete FreeBSD_ has many (all?) of the base
man pages arranged in a convenient bound printed format. My copy is
quite few years old though, and I really don't know how current or
complete the most recent edition may be.
The man pages are also available online in a very, very convenient
hyperlinked format so you can explore the relatedness of various
pieces with ease. http://www.freebsd.org/docs/man.html
You may find the man section indexes online to be the most useful
for the task of enumerating all functionality.
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