Add a new category of fortunes, 'freebsd-tips'. Useful hints, advice, and

pointers to areas of the system that might not be apparent on first
inspection.

2 files changed, 281 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile b/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
index 17c8cd5..4cccfb8 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #	@(#)Makefile	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 # $FreeBSD$
 
-FILES=	fortunes fortunes2 murphy startrek zippy
+FILES=	fortunes fortunes2 freebsd-tips murphy startrek zippy
 BLDS=	fortunes.dat fortunes2.dat murphy.dat startrek.dat zippy.dat \
-	fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat
+	fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat freebsd-tips.dat
 
 # Pass all new entries by ${MAINTAINER} to preserve some semblance of
 # humor in the fortune files.  What's funny to you on 6 beers may not
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ beforeinstall:
 	${INSTALL} ${COPY} -o ${SHAREOWN} -g ${SHAREGRP} -m ${SHAREMODE} \
 	    ${BLDS} ${DESTDIR}${SHAREDIR}/games/fortune
 
-.for f in fortunes fortunes2 fortunes2-o limerick murphy murphy-o startrek zippy
+.for f in fortunes fortunes2 fortunes2-o freebsd-tips limerick murphy murphy-o startrek zippy
 $f.dat: $f
 	PATH=$$PATH:/usr/games:${.OBJDIR}/../strfile \
 	    strfile -Crs ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET}
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11901b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
@@ -0,0 +1,278 @@
+This fortune brought to you by:
+$FreeBSD$
+%
+Having trouble using FTP through a firewall?  Try setting the environment
+variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to yes, and see ftp(1) for more details.
+%
+By pressing "Scroll Lock" you can use the arrow keys to scroll backward
+through the console output.  Press "Scroll Lock" again to turn it off.
+%
+Want colour in your directory listings?  Use "ls -G".  "ls -F" is also useful,
+and they can be combined as "ls -FG".
+%
+If you need to ask a question on the FreeBSD-questions mailing list then
+
+	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/\
+		freebsd-questions/index.html
+
+contains lots of useful advice to help you get the best results.
+%
+If you'd like to keep track of applications in the FreeBSD ports tree, take a
+look at FreshPorts;
+
+	http://www.freshports.org/
+%
+To search for files that match a particular name, use find(1); for example
+
+	find / -name "*GENERIC*" -ls
+
+will search '/', and all subdirectories, for files with 'GENERIC' in the name.
+      	--  Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
+%
+In tcsh, you can `set autolist' to have the shell automatically show
+all the possible matches when doing filename/directory expansion.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+You can `set autologout = 30' to have tcsh log you off automatically
+if you leave the shell idle for more than 30 seconds.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+If you `set filec' (file completion) in tcsh and write a part of the
+filename, pressing TAB will show you the available choices when there
+is more than one, or complete the filename if there's only one match.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+You can press up-arrow or down-arrow to walk through a list of
+previous commands in tcsh.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+You can disable tcsh's terminal beep if you `set nobeep'.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+If you `set watch (0 any any)' in tcsh, you will be notified when
+someone logs in or out of your system.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%m %# '
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%n@%m%# '
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%n@%m:%~%# '
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%n@%m:%/%# '
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+Nice tcsh prompt: set prompt = '[%B%m%b] %B%~%b%# '
+%
+Simple tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%# '
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+If you want df(1) and other commands to display disk sizes in
+kilobytes instead of 512-byte blocks, set BLOCKSIZE in your
+environment to 'K'.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+To change an environment variable in tcsh you use: setenv NAME "value"
+where NAME is the name of the variable and "value" its new value.
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+To change an environment variable in /bin/sh use:
+
+	$ VARIABLE="value"
+	$ export VARIABLE
+		--  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
+%
+/etc/make.conf contains overrides to /etc/defaults/make.conf, which
+controls the options used to compile software on this system.
+%
+To do a fast search for a file, try
+
+	 locate filename
+
+locate uses a database that is updated every saturday (assuming your computer
+is running FreeBSD at the time) to quickly find files based on name only.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+In order to search for a string in some files, use 'grep' like this:
+
+	 grep "string" filename1 [filename2 filename3 ...]
+
+This will print out the lines in the files that contain the string.  grep can
+also do a lot more advanced searches - type 'man grep' for details.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp or http.
+
+	 fetch http://www.freebsd.org/index.html
+
+will download the front page of the FreeBSD web site.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+In order to make fetch (the FreeBSD downloading tool) ask for
+username/password when it encounter a password-protected web page, you can set
+the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can permanently set environment variables for your shell by putting them
+in a startup file for the shell.  The name of the startup file varies
+depending on the shell - csh and tcsh uses .cshrc, bash uses .bashrc, zsh uses
+.zshrc, ksh uses .kshrc, and the Bourne shell (/bin/sh) uses .profile (and
+through a little bit of trickery in .profile also .shrc)
+Other shells will often also read .profile
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you are running xterm, the default TERM variable will be 'xterm'.  If you
+set this environment variable to 'xterm-color' instead, a lot of programs will
+use colors.  You can do this by
+
+	TERM=xterm-color; export TERM
+
+in Bourne-derived shells, and
+
+	setenv TERM xterm-color
+
+in csh-derived shells.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you accidently drop into /bin/sh (e.g, due to a computer failure where you
+end up in single user mode), you can make the cursor keys work by typing
+
+	set -E
+
+The E represents the initial E in Emacs (for emacs keys).
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you do not want to get beeps in X11 (X Windows), you can turn them off with
+
+	xset b off
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can look through a file in a nice text-based interface by typing
+
+	less filename
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use when you have
+learned it, but somewhat user-unfriendly.  To use ee (an easier but less
+powerful editor) instead, set the environment variable EDITOR to /usr/bin/ee
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you accidently end up inside vi, you can quit it by pressing Escape, colon
+(:), q (q), bang (!) and pressing return.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can use aliases to decrease the amount of typing you need to do to get
+commands you commonly use.  Examples of fairly popular aliases include (in
+bourne shell style, as in /bin/sh, bash, ksh, and zsh):
+
+	alias lf="ls -FA"
+	alias ll="ls -lA"
+	alias su="su -m"
+
+In csh or tcsh, these would be
+
+	alias lf ls -FA
+	alias ll ls -lA
+	alias su su -m
+
+To remove an alias, you can usually use 'unalias aliasname'.  To list all
+aliases, you can usually type just 'alias'.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+In order to support national characters for european languages in tools like
+less without creating other nationalisation aspects, set the environment
+variable LC_ALL to 'en_US.ISO8859-1'.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can search for documentation on a keyword by typing
+
+	apropos keyword
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+Man pages are divided into section depending on topic.  There are 9 different
+sections numbered from 1 (General Commands) to 9 (Kernel Developer's Manual).
+You can get an introduction to each topic by typing
+
+	man <number> intro
+
+In other words, to get the intro to general commands, type
+
+	man 1 intro
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+FreeBSD is started up by the program 'init'.  The first thing init does when
+starting multiuser mode (ie, starting the computer up for normal use) is to
+run the shell script /etc/rc.  By reading /etc/rc, you can learn a lot about
+how the system is put together, which again will make you more confident about
+what happens when you do something with it.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you want to play CDs with FreeBSD, a utility for this is already included.
+Type 'cdcontrol' then 'help' to learn more.  (You may need to set the CDROM
+environment variable in order to make cdcontrol want to start.)
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+If you have a CD-ROM drive in your machine, you can make the CD-ROM that is
+presently inserted available by typing 'mount /cdrom' as root.   The CD-ROM
+will be available under /cdrom/.  Remember to do 'unmount /cdrom' before
+removing the CD-ROM (it will usually not be possible to remove the CD-ROM
+without doing this.)
+
+Note: This tip may not work in all configurations.
+		--  Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+You can install extra packages for FreeBSD by using the ports system.
+If you have installed it, you can download, compile, and install software by
+just typing
+
+	# cd /usr/ports/<category>/<portname>
+	# make install && make clean
+
+as root.   The ports infrastructure will download the software, change it so
+it works on FreeBSD, compile it, install it, register the installation so it
+will be possible to automatically uninstall it, and clean out the temporary
+working space it used.  You can remove an installed port you decide you do not
+want after all by typing
+
+	# cd /usr/ports/<category>/<portname>
+	# make deinstall
+
+as root.
+		-- Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
+%
+Nice bash prompt: PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ '
+		-- Mathieu <mathieu@hal.interactionvirtuelle.com>
+%
+To see the output from when your computer started, run dmesg(8).  If it has
+been replaced with other messages, look at /var/run/dmesg.boot.
+		-- Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
+%
+You can use "whereis" to locate standard binary, manual page and source
+directories for the specified programs. This can be particularly handy
+when you are trying to find where in the ports tree an application is.
+
+Try "whereis netscape" and "whereis whereis".
+		-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
+%
+You can press Ctrl-D to quickly exit from a shell, or logout from a
+login shell.
+		-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
+%
+You can use "pkg_info" to see a list of packages you have installed.
+		-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
+%
+You can change the video mode on all consoles by adding something like
+the following to /etc/rc.conf:
+
+	allscreens="80x30"
+
+You can use "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" for a list of supported text
+modes.
+		-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
+%
+Any user that is a member of the wheel group can use "su -" to simulate
+a root login. You can add a user to the wheel group by editing /etc/group.
+		-- 	-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>