Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 21:47:58 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> Cc: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Access Apache Manual Files (THANK GOD) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980104213820.7064X-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19980105012506.6899.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Charlie Roots wrote: > Hi Brian, You know, this is FreeBSD-questions, made specifically for questions. While we encourage even the simplist questions, we don't encourage the use of sarcasm in the answers. Please don't discourage people from making correct use of this mailing list. The best response, if you think the question is poorly phrased, is to ignore it; don't give them an answer. The last thing you want to do is discourage any questions at all. Also, including disclaimers, claiming innocence for the cutting remarks, doesn't impress anyone. > Thank God someone (you) have finally answered Mr. Geoffrey for his > very simple question, that kept popping up day after day for the past > week or so. > > I wonder if one should ask the same question to the same people over > and over again, in ALL the possible ways. > > Apparently the cause was that he was asking for something that simply > DID NOT EXIST in life. > > Man, you'll find over 90 % of people who installed Apache and have a > working Web Site, did manage even without reading a single document. > > But to Mr. Geoffrey, the case is different, the problem is that if the > time wasted to repeatedly ask the question was devoted to try setting > up the THING he would have discovered that it is not that dangerous to > his health or difficult at AALLLLLL. > > But as psychiatrists like to say, there are some ANAL personalities, > (THIS IS A SCIENTIFIC TERM, SO DO NOT TAKE IT OTHERWISE), these are > people who are always asking themselves while typing on the keyboard, > "ARE MY FINGER TIPS CLEAN ???) ;-/ > > Sorry if I came hard on you Geoffrey, but please try this 'VERY RISKY > ;-)' procedure of setting up Apache before reading the docs at the > mentioned URL, and if you fail, so ALL of you , FLAEM ME !! > > Greeting everybody. > > > > > ---Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> wrote: > > > > On 3 January, 1998, at 08:39 (-0500) > > Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com> wrote: > > > > > Okay, it's in the path. > > > Actually I think the problem may be that the Apache manual files > just > > > aren't there. In /usr/apache/man I get the listing > > > > > > cat1 cat9 man4 > > > cat2 catl man5 > > > cat3 catn man6 > > > cat4 de_DE.ISO_8859-1 man7 > > > cat5 ja_JP.EUC man8 > > > cat6 man1 man9 > > > cat7 man2 manl > > > cat8 man3 mann > > > > > > This is the same listing I get in /usr/local/man but when I do > > > #ls -Rl /usr/apache/man >list > > > and look at list in vi I discover that there are no files in the > > > /usr/apache/man tree, only a bunch of empty directories and > > > subdirectories. I looked in the apache build directories for the > help > > > files but I couldn't find anything. Do you know where I can get > them and > > > where to copy them to? Is it possible that they where accidentally > left > > > out of the apache-current port? > > > > To my knowledge, there *are* no man pages for Apache, and never have > been; > > all the docs are HTML. I have the full source distribution for Apache > > 1.3b2 (only one beta release behind the current one of 1.3b3). > There's not > > a single man page in the distribution. > > > > Furthermore, the prebuilt Apache FreeBSD packages don't install any > docs > > (HTML or otherwise)--at least, not the ones on my 2.2.5-RELEASE > CD-ROM. > > Likewise, the package list (PLIST) files for the ports on that > CD-ROM don't > > list any docs, and the Makefile doesn't install them. > > > > I recommend that you extract one of the ports (say, `apache-current' > or > > `apache'), then `cd' to directory `work/apache*/htdocs/manual'. In > that > > directory, you'll find the complete HTML documentation for > > Apache--essentially the same docs that you find on the Apache home > page, > > `http://www.apache.org'. > > ----- > > Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ > > Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and > original > > in your work. > > -- Gustave Flaubert > > > > == > MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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