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<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.9 1998-08-14 15:24:02 nik Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.10 1998-08-18 23:26:50 dwhite Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect>
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take effect. Of course if you are using an alternate keymap for your
country, you should edit that one instead.
<sect1>
<heading>How do I reformat DOS text files to UNIX ones?</heading>
<p>Simply use this perl command:
<verb>
perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file ...
</verb>
<p>file is the file(s) to process. The modification is done in-place,
with the original file stored with a .bak extension.
<sect1>
<heading>How do I kill processes by name?</heading>
<p>Use <url url="/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/man.cgi?killall" name="killall(1)">.
<sect1>
<heading>Why is su bugging me about not being in root's ACL?
</heading>
<p>The error comes from the Kerberos distributed authentication system.
The problem isn't fatal but annoying. You can either run su with the -k
option, or uninstall Kerberos as described in the next question.
<sect1>
<heading>How do I uninstall Kerberos?</heading>
<p>To remove Kerberos from the system, reinstall the bin distribution
for the release you are running. If you have the CDROM, you can
mount the cd (we'll assume on /cdrom) and run
<verb>
cd /cdrom/bin
./install.sh
</verb>
</sect>

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<!-- $Id: hardware.sgml,v 1.11 1998-08-18 23:26:50 dwhite Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<htmlurl
url="http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html#micron"
name="http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html#micron">
<sect1>
<heading>Does FreeBSD support Symmetric Multiproccessing (SMP)?
</heading>
<p>SMP is supported in 3.0-CURRENT only.
</sect>

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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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</enum>
<sect1>
<heading>What are the limits for memory and diskspace?</heading>
<p>For memory, the (theoretical) limit is 4 gigabytes. One gigabyte
has been tested; you generally can't buy i386 PCs that can support
much more than that.
<p>For filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8 terabytes. In
practice, there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with modifications
filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and exist).
<p>The maximum size of a single file is 2 gigabytes.
</sect>

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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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Given a choice, I think I'd prefer to get used to the scratchy
noises, myself!
<sect1>
<heading>What does 'MFC' mean?</heading>
<p>MFC is an acronym for 'Merged From -CURRENT.' It's used in the CVS
logs to denote when a change was migrated from the CURRENT to the STABLE
branches.
</sect>

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</itemize>
<sect1>
<heading>How can I redirect service requests from one machine to another?
</heading>
<p>You can redirect FTP (and other service) request with the 'socket'
package, available in the ports tree in category 'sysutils'.
Simply replace the service's commandline to call socket instead, like so:
<verb>
ftp stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/socket socket ftp.foo.com ftp
</verb>
<p>where 'ftp.foo.com' and 'ftp' are the host and port to redirect to,
respectively.
</sect>

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<sect>
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<heading>Books on FreeBSD</heading>
<p>Greg Lehey's book ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'' is available
from Walnut Creek and ships with the 2.2.6 CDROM. There is also
from Walnut Creek and ships with the 2.2.7 CDROM. There is also
a larger book entitled ``The Complete FreeBSD'', which comes with
additional printed manpages and includes the 2.2.6 CDROM set. It
additional printed manpages and includes the 2.2.7 CDROM set. It
should be available in most good book shops now.
<p>There is a FreeBSD Documentation Project which you may contact (or
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can also be used to submit problem reports and change requests via
electronic mail.
<sect1>
<heading>Where can I get ASCII/PostScript versions of the FAQ?</heading>
<p>The up-to-date FAQ is available from the FreeBSD Web Server or any
mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit Latin1).
<p>As PostScript (about 370KB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ps"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ps">
</itemize>
<p>As ASCII text (about 220KB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ascii"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ascii">
</itemize>
<p>As ISO 8859-1 text (about 220KB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.latin1"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.latin1">
</itemize>
<sect1>
<heading>Where can I get ASCII/PostScript versions of the Handbook?</heading>
<p>The up-to-date Handbook is available from the FreeBSD Web Server or any
mirror as PostScript and plain text (7 bit ASCII and 8-bit Latin1).
<p>As PostScript (about 1.7MB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ps"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ps">
</itemize>
<p>As ASCII text (about 1080KB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.ascii">
</itemize>
<p>As ISO 8859-1 text (about 1080KB):
<itemize>
<item><url url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.latin1"
name="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.latin1">
</itemize>
<sect1>
<heading>The ASCII handbook isn't plain text!</heading>
<p>True, the ASCII and Latin1 versions of the FAQ and Handbook aren't
strictly plaintext; they contain underlines and overprints that
assume the output is going directly to a dot matrix printer. If you
need to reformat them to be human-readable, run the file through col:
<verb>
$ col -b < inputfile > outputfile
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>I'd like to become a FreeBSD Web mirror!</heading>
<p>Certainly! There are multiple ways to mirror the Web pages.
<itemize>
<item>Using CVSUP: You can retrieve the formatted files using CVSUP
from cvsup.freebsd.org. Add this line to your cvsup file:
<verb>
www release=current hostname=/home base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
prefix=/usr/local/www/data/www.freebsd.org delete old use-rel-suffix
</verb>
<item>Using rsync: See <url url="http://www.freebsd.org/internal/mirror.html"
name="the mirroring page"> for information.
<item>Using ftp mirror: You can download the FTP server's copy of
the web site using your favorite ftp mirror tool. Simply start at
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/www.
</itemize>
<sect1>
<heading>I'd like to translate the documentation into Friesian.</heading>
<p>Well, we can't pay, but we might arrange a free CD or T-shirt and a
Contributor's Handbook entry if you sbumit a translation of the
documentation.
<sect1>
<heading>Other sources of information.</heading>