hello again :)
thanks for the help, the packages *do* install in /usr/pkg/, and i was 
having problems because i am not used to the default korn shell. 

since there is no adduser script, i was trying my luck with the passwd 
and group files. i don't really know what i'm doing but i understand you 
have to add the user to the wheel group to su to root. is there any way 
to allow root telnet logins? 

now i just have three relatively small problems:

sendmail is giving me troubles. it gets this error while booting: 
starting network daemons: sendmail...^snip^..... NOQUEUE SYSERR(root): 
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file etc/aliases: No such file or 
directory. 

pico and joe don't seem to refresh the screen properly while editing 
text. 

all network activity goes straight to the screen. is there a way to log 
remote logins and stuff to disk? it interrupts whatever the person at the 
console is doing..

thanks for all the help
harry doyle

ps-> i find the site http://routbort.neuro.duke.edu/netbsd/ to be really 
helpful so i'll try to find answers on the net before i flood you guys 
with anymore netbsd-newbie stuff :)

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UN*X Administration       /   Database Solutions
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