From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 06:08:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A022937B401; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C7C43FE0; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:08:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h63D8l56027017; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 08:08:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F042AC4.9080804@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:08:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <20030520233353.E8403@freebsdmall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: trhodes@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comments on the new rcNG section. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:08:49 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > I don't recall if I mentioned this or not, but I don't think we should > list all 40 files in /etc/rc.d/ in the rcNG section. It's just going > to generate silly PRs when new files are added. It doesn't really > matter or add anything to the text. It's just filler. I suggest we > invite users to type ls on their own system and maybe list a few files > followed by '...'. Attempting to list all, even after qualifying it > with something like "at the time of this writing", is I think in > general a bad idea unless it is really necessary for clarify. > > I think this new section could in general do with some more > wordsmithing. I'll take another look at it in 24 hours if noone beats > me to it. Wow - this must have gotten jammed up on hub.freebsd.org somehow: Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC545682A; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C89F37B425; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D0437B401; Tue, 20 May 2003 23:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from builder.freebsdmall.com (builder.freebsdmall.com [65.86.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA79B43F85; Tue, 20 May 2003 23:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@builder.freebsdmall.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by builder.freebsdmall.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) id h4L6XrG6063797; Tue, 20 May 2003 23:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:33:53 -0700 From: Murray Stokely Hopefully this wasn't crucial then.. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------