From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 9 21:22:01 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA26681 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:05:44 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA26638 ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:03:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id XAA02623; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:04:49 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504100304.XAA02623@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Documentation update To: doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1103 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've just imported a bunch of our stray tutorials and such into the User and Admin manual structure I committed recently. Please take a look and comment. A considerable amount of editing is still needed, along with "is this even relevant anymore?" checks. The new entries are divided up into a number of files, each starting with "m_" and they are included when the master files (userman.sgml and adminman.sgml) are processed. They are nice bite-sized pieces that people can easily take and work on (hint!). My sgml toolkit has been updated and may be found at http://www.freebsd.org/~jfieber/doc and the update is *required* for this latest round of changes to the documents. ALSO, as the documentation migrates into the SGML format, the files in the Text directory are NOT the files to edit when you want to make changes! Please contact me if you wish to make changes there. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming... -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 10 02:16:33 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA00541 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 02:16:33 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA00530 ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 02:16:30 -0700 Received: from nietzsche (annex1s29.urc.tue.nl [131.155.12.39]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id BAA16842; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 01:59:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA12190; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:53:23 +0200 Message-Id: <199504100853.KAA12190@nietzsche> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) cc: doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation update In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Apr 1995 23:04:49 EDT." <199504100304.XAA02623@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:53:23 +0200 From: "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I've just imported a bunch of our stray tutorials and such into > the User and Admin manual structure I committed recently. Please > take a look and comment. A considerable amount of editing is > still needed, along with "is this even relevant anymore?" checks. > > The new entries are divided up into a number of files, each > starting with "m_" and they are included when the master files > (userman.sgml and adminman.sgml) are processed. They are nice > bite-sized pieces that people can easily take and work on > (hint!). > Is there a way to get all these files and read them offline? That would be nice, I dont want to spend hours online via my modem to read the documentation. Marc. Marc van Kempen wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me. From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 10 07:15:43 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA00494 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:15:43 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA00478 ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:15:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA05912; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:15:16 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504101415.KAA05912@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: Documentation update To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504100853.KAA12190@nietzsche> from "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" at Apr 10, 95 10:53:23 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 396 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl writes: > Is there a way to get all these files and read them offline? That would > be nice, I dont want to spend hours online via my modem to read the > documentation. Just grab ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 11 02:12:21 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA17212 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 02:12:21 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA17205 ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 02:11:48 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA27764; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:11:02 +0800 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:11:02 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao cc: doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation Project In-Reply-To: <199504081846.OAA16704@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, John Fieber wrote: > > I'll take a look at it, but I'm not entirely conviced that a > swiss army knife httpd server is that good of a thing. I think > CGI scripts work just fine. WN doesn't replace CGI's, but it implements some of the more common functions internally, and they happen to be the type that would be heavily used in an online documentation system (searching and filtering). It compiles to a 64K binary so it is no larger (and possibly smaller) than the NCSA httpd. I like having it all in one binary rather than one httpd and a bunch of external CGI binaries or scripts. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 11 21:46:47 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA27144 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:46:47 -0700 Received: from ix4.ix.netcom.com (ix4.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA27138 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:46:46 -0700 Received: from by ix4.ix.netcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id VAA16213; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:45:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:45:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199504120445.VAA16213@ix4.ix.netcom.com> From: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Subject: config.sgml ... any suggestions? To: doc@freebsd.org Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Enclosed find config.sgml. It still needs to be updated with the info from the 2.1 LINT, which I just grabbed. I'm looking for suggestions on making the options and hardware sections more manageable. Is this what you're looking for? Paul ---- config.sgml ----
Building the kernel with config Paul Vinciguerra V1.0, April 8, 1995 This document explains the the process of reconfiguring the kernel. Introduction

The GENERIC kernel shipped as a starting point for most users to be able to get their systems up and running under FreeBSD 2.1. Most users rebuild their kernels to: Add support for new hardware Remove drivers to reduce the size of the kernel and free up RAM. Add additional functionality to the system.(eg. PPP or SLIP support) In order to rebuild the kernel you must have the srcdist installed. What goes in the config file?

Global parameters

A system configuration file must contains the following:

Machine Type

machine "type"

The machine type indicates the type of system on which FreeBSD will run.

The machine type tells the system that it can find the data files in "/sys/type". This entry should not be changed.

machine "i386"

CPU Type

The CPU type indicates the type or types of CPU's that the kernel will run on.

The kernel can be built to run on a single CPU type cpu "I586_CPU" and would need to be recompiled to run on a '486 or '386 system.

.. or a single kernel can be built to run on any of multiple CPU's cpu "I386_CPU" cpu "I486_CPU" cpu "I586_CPU"

System Identification

ident name The system identification is a moniker attached to the system, and is often the machine on which the system is to run. For example, the FreeBSD.org system is named "freefall" and by placing the entry ident FREEFALL in the configuration file would create a global #define FREEFALL and would include compilation of all the FREEFALL specific changes found in the source code to be included in the kernel.

This entry is GENERIC by default. ident GENERIC

Timezone number [dst [number]]

The timezone entry is used to define the information returned by the gettimeofday(2) system call. This value is specified as the number of hours East or West of GMT. The timezone specification may also be used to indicate the type of daylight savings time rules to be applied. timezone 5 dst # EST Daylight Savings or timezone 8 # PST The integer or floating point number following the dst entry specifies a dst correction algorithm. The default value is 1 indicating the U.S. Other values are: 2 Australian style 3 Western European 4 Middle European 5 Eastern European See dettimeofday(2) and ctime(3) for more information.

Maxusers number

This entry specifies the expected number of simultaneously active users on the system. This number is used to determine the size of the system data structures. maxusers 10

Config section

The config directive determines the location of root file system as well as other key file systems. config kernel root [on] root-device swap [on] swap-device and swap-device .. dumps[on] dump-device args [on] arg-devide The default entry of: config kernel root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1 and sd0 and sd1 dumps on wd0 states that the root partition is on device wd0; swapping is on device(s) wd0, wd1, sd0, sd1; dumps occur on wd0.

 Options

The options directive instructs the compiler to include optional code in the kernel. For example: # One of these is mandatory: options FFS #Fast filesystem options NFS #Network File System # The rest are optional: options "CD9660" #ISO 9660 filesystem options FDESC #File descriptor filesystem options KERNFS #Kernel filesystem options LFS #Log filesystem options MFS #Memory File System options MSDOSFS #MS DOS File System options NULLFS #NULL filesystem options PORTAL #Portal filesystem options PROCFS #Process filesystem options UMAPFS #UID map filesystem options UNION #Union filesystem # # Disk quotas are supported when this option is enabled. If you # change the value of this option, you must do a `make clean' in your # kernel compile directory in order to get a working kernel. # options QUOTA #enable disk quotas Device Specification

Each device installed (or attached to) the system must be specified to config so that the devices will be probed at boot time. Devices not currently installed in the hardware may be specified so that the kernel generated will support those devices at a later date. a device specifiaction takes on of the following forms: controller device-name device-info [interrupt-spec] device device-name device-info interrupt-spec disk device-name device-info tape device-name device-info controller bt0 at isa? port "IO_BT0" bio irq ? vector btintr controller ahb0 at isa? bio irq ? vector ahbintr controller aha0 at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector ahaintr controller uha0 at isa? port "IO_UHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector uhaintr controller aic0 at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector aicintr controller pas0 at isa? port 0x1f88 controller pas1 at isa? port 0x1f84 controller pas2 at isa? port 0x1f8c controller pas3 at isa? port 0x1e88 controller sea0 at isa? bio irq 5 iomem 0xdc000 iosiz 0x2000 vector seaintr controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT3" tty irq 7 vector lptintr device mse0 at isa? port 0x23c tty irq 5 vector mseintr device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 12 vector psmintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 net irq 7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr device is0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 drq 7 vector isintr device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr device el0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 9 vector elintr device le0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 vector le_intr device ze0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector zeintr device lnc0 at isa? XXX FILL ME IN device snd5 at isa? port 0x330 irq 6 vector mpuintr device snd4 at isa? port 0x220 irq 15 drq 6 vector gusintr device snd3 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 6 vector pasintr device snd2 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 vector sbintr device snd6 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 5 vector sbintr device snd7 at isa? port 0x300 device snd1 at isa? port 0x388 device pca0 at isa? tty device mcd0 at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 10 vector mcdintr device wt0 at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 vector wtintr device ctx0 at isa? port 0x230 iomem 0xd0000 device apm0 at isa? options APM controller pci0 device ncr0 device de0 This section is usually the largest section of the configuration file.

Pseudo-devices

The system has a number of associated Pseudo devices. Pseudo devices are drivers which add functionality, but have no direct hardware associated with them. Examples of pseudo devices are pty, loop, ether, PPP. pseudo-device ether #Generic Ethernet pseudo-device loop #Network loop back device pseudo-device sl 2 #Serial Line IP pseudo-device ppp 2 #Point-to-point protocol pseudo-device bpfilter 4 #Berkeley packet filter

Rebuilding the kernel

The system assumes that the source tree is located at /sys. Since the tree is located at /usr/src/sys, we need to create a symbolic link from your sources (/usr/src/sys) to (/sys) ln -s /usr/src/sys/ /sys At this point, you need to modify your configuration file, usually GENERIC as follows: cd /sys/i386/conf vi GENERIC (to edit your configuration) Refer to the file LINT for all the configuration options config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend make make install Note: This process renames /kernel to /kernel.old before installing the new kernel. If there are problems with the new kernel you can still reboot the old kernel by specifying /kernel.old at boot time. New in 2.1: If you only need to change hardware settings, you can use the dset command.

New in 2.1: If you only need to change hardware settings, you can use the dset command.
From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 12 07:48:34 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA14857 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 07:48:34 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA14851 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 07:48:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA17245; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:48:08 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504121448.KAA17245@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: config.sgml ... any suggestions? To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 10:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504120445.VAA16213@ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Apr 11, 95 09:45:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1276 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Paul Vinciguerra writes: > Is this what you're looking for? Yes! > > Timezone number [dst [number]] > Hmm... I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that this option was obsolete. An option in /etc/rc can be set to specify that the RTC is wall time, otherwise it is assumed to be GMT. All other functionality (time changes and such) are outside the kernel. Someone want to check on this? > Maxusers number

> This entry specifies the expected number of simultaneously active users > on the system. This > number is used to determine the size of the system data structures. It might be good to mention the parameters that are derived from this since there may be good reason to change this for reasons other than the number of anticipated users. > Options

Need more commentary on the various options. I expect this will appear with the incorporation of the 2.1 LINT info... > Device Specification

Same comment. Good work!! -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 11:08:43 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA18945 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:08:43 -0700 Received: from grover.graceland.org (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18937 ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:08:35 -0700 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by grover.graceland.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA25031; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:11:24 -0400 From: John Fieber Message-Id: <199504151811.OAA25031@grover.graceland.org> Subject: Proposal to move the FreeBSD FAQ and handbook To: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:11:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1771 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As the documentation project is progressing, it is outgrowing the scope implied by the nome of the directory in which it lives, namely /usr/share/FAQ. In light of this, I am proposing to moving the contents from /usr/share/FAQ to /usr/share/doc with the following subdirectories: /usr/share/doc/FAQ: home for the existing FAQ /usr/share/doc/handbook: home for the FreeBSD handbook that is currently coming into existance The organization of of the handbook is somewhat in flux and I have no sentimental attachment to calling the directory "handbook". In FreeBSD-current, the handbook exists as a separate user guide and administration guide, but I gan almost guarantee that the structure will change a fair amount between now and the release of 2.1. It is likely that it be processed as a single piece, i.e, turning it into a LaTeX file will generate a single, integrated FreeBSD handbook. (This also greatly simplifies making cross-references that become hypetext links in the HTML version.) A good share of what currently lives in the existing FAQ directory, excluding the FAQ itself, has been brought into the the handbook already. The documents to go in these directories are written in SGML using the linuxdoc DTD. The tools for turning the SGML files into HTML, LaTeX and ascii will be brougt into the source tree. This will bring in the sgmls package (3 binaries), a perl script, the linuxdoc DTD and some related files used by sgmlsasp to perform the conversions. The plan is to install an HTML version of the handbook for use as an on-line help resource. Over time, the relevant material from the existing contents of /usr/src/share/doc should be integrated into the FreeBSD (handbook|manual|guide). Comments? Suggestions? Flames? -john From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 11:12:48 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19186 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:12:48 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19178 ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:12:45 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA21697; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:12:41 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504151812.LAA21697@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Proposal to move the FreeBSD FAQ and handbook To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504151811.OAA25031@grover.graceland.org> from "John Fieber" at Apr 15, 95 02:11:22 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 251 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Comments? Suggestions? Flames? 100%! Ask Rod to the do CVS job. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant' From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 14:23:34 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA01650 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:23:34 -0700 Received: from ix3.ix.netcom.com (ix3.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA01638 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:23:32 -0700 Received: from by ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id OAA04680; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:22:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:22:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199504152122.OAA04680@ix3.ix.netcom.com> From: pvinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Subject: any news as to html server? To: doc@freebsd.org Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Has there been a decision as to whether or not 2.1 will include a html server? More importantly, is there going to some type of CGI support? Paul From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 15:28:24 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA04934 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:28:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA04927 ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:28:22 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: John Fieber cc: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to move the FreeBSD FAQ and handbook In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 95 14:11:22 EDT." <199504151811.OAA25031@grover.graceland.org> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:28:22 -0700 Message-ID: <4926.797984902@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > As the documentation project is progressing, it is outgrowing the > scope implied by the nome of the directory in which it lives, > namely /usr/share/FAQ. In light of this, I am proposing to > moving the contents from /usr/share/FAQ to /usr/share/doc with > the following subdirectories: This all sounds fine to me! /usr/share/FAQ is a historical relic, nothing more, and I'd like nothing better than to see it go away and become part of a REAL documentation hierarchy! Jordan From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 15:31:29 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA05027 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:31:29 -0700 Received: from ain.charm.net (ain.charm.net [198.69.35.206]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA05016 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:31:01 -0700 Received: (from nc@localhost) by ain.charm.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09762; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 18:23:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 18:23:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: Paul Vinciguerra cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any news as to html server? In-Reply-To: <199504152122.OAA04680@ix3.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Apr 1995, Paul Vinciguerra wrote: > Has there been a decision as to whether or not 2.1 will include a html > server? More importantly, is there going to some type of CGI support? > Doesn't the port for cern_httpd v3.0 include CGI support, at least I swear I remember configuring CGI when I installed it a few days ago. Just checking, -Jerry. From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 16:00:05 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA06121 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:00:05 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06115 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:00:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA06114; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:01:00 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504152301.TAA06114@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: any news as to html server? To: pvinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:00:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504152122.OAA04680@ix3.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Apr 15, 95 02:22:51 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1070 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Paul Vinciguerra writes: > Has there been a decision as to whether or not 2.1 will include a html > server? More importantly, is there going to some type of CGI support? I think the jury is still out on this one. A working demo of what the help system could be with an http server might be a good thing to throw together. Personally I don't have time but I would certainly encourage anyone who wants to make a go at it. A good demo should be able to do on-the-fly html generation from man pages with live links to other man pages. It should also support an interface to "man -k", again with live links to the resulting man pages. It should be no more difficult to use than the man command and automagically incorporate anything the user adds in /usr/local/man, or rather it should find anything that the regular man command would find. Ideally it would be just as fast at on-the-fly generation as man is. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 16:02:10 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA06218 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:02:10 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06210 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:02:08 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA06130; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:01:49 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504152301.TAA06130@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: any news as to html server? To: nc@ain.charm.net (Network Coordinator) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: pvinci@ix.netcom.com, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Coordinator" at Apr 15, 95 06:23:05 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 348 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Network Coordinator writes: > Doesn't the port for cern_httpd v3.0 include CGI support, at least I > swear I remember configuring CGI when I installed it a few days ago. It certainly does! -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===