From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 02:12:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F5216A4CF; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:12:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B2343D31; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:12:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7302169A39; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:11:59 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Steve Bertrand" Message-Id: <20040713221159.14e4c8ed.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <10564.64.39.177.89.1089765802.squirrel@64.39.177.89> References: <40F4109E.5070704@fskklaw.com> <2770.209.167.16.15.1089737800.squirrel@209.167.16.15> <20040713173432.5004bcdf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <10564.64.39.177.89.1089765802.squirrel@64.39.177.89> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chapter 14 Security X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:12:01 -0000 "Steve Bertrand" wrote: > >> > The article requires the use of the command "gifconfig" which does not > >> > exit on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine. Is this a typo in the manual, or > >> have > >> > I missed something? > >> > >> Just did a quick google for "no gifconfig freebsd 5", and in the sparc64 > >> relnotes, I found this: > >> > >> "gifconfig(8) is obsolete and has been removed. Its functionality is now > >> handled by the tunnel and deletetunnel commands of ifconfig(8)." > >> > >> Here's the link. If it's taken out of sparc, I'm assuming that it's > >> obsolete for the others as well... > >> > >> http://jamesthornton.com/freebsd/5.0/relnotes-sparc64.html > > > > This should probably be passed on to the doc team. Anyone have time to > > put together a patch to update the handbook? > > > > [doc team CCed] > > Although I've always been intrigued in the arena of actually making a > doc/code patch contribution to any open source project, I feel this a very > good time to look into howto perform this type of task. > > I'll review the FreeBSD developers handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ > > tomorrow to find out more on how I can do this. It's something I've always > wanted to do, and it seems like a great opportunity for me to get 'right > into' making an actual contribution for what I have so freely taken. > > Any other resources I can be pointed to for making Doc contributions will > be graciously accepted for mine, and hopefully others interest. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html You may also want to subscribe to doc@freebsd.org -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com