From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 10:51:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6869E37B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBCInXO29341; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:49:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:49:33 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck Message-ID: <20011212194933.A29109@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:30:51PM -0500 X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:30:51PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Is this for your self enlightenment, or are you in a position to make > changes to the man pages as released with the install? I have all ready > received a acceptable answer to my question. I stated my position on this > subject and unless you can get things changed it ends here. Please don't get angry - the cool thing is, *everyone* can make changes to the manpages that are released, if other people think they are sensible. However, like someone else said, the man pages are (unfortunately for you) not intended to be an introduction - most of the time they assume a lot of knowledge already. I think that what you need is covered by online articles at http://www.freebsddiary.org/, or other such places (unfortunately I don't have a complete list available or I'd post it here - but many of the URLs are referenced daily from this list). So, while it's definitely useful to hear what you didn't understand about the manpage, it is not guaranteed that all of your proposed changes will make it into the released version. Some might however, so please do sent comments. As for the official way to report bugs (either in the system or in the documentation) or typos, check out the command 'send-pr' on your FreeBSD system, or the online form which you can find at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Hopefully this will make you feel better! Cheers, --Stijn -- The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message