Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:26:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Rusty <irisinc@gci.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Where are the HOWTO's? Message-ID: <19990916112656.A21413@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <19990916083206.A67032@rucus.ru.ac.za>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:32:06AM %2B0200 References: <37E1B44D.FC71786B@gci.net> <19990916083206.A67032@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:32:06AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Thu 1999-09-16 (19:23), Rusty wrote: > > Problem #1 Online handbook assumes you know where certain files are > > located and does not give paths to said files. The handbook also refers > > you to man pages. Wonderful! Put down handbook; lookup man page. Try > > to remember what in the hell it was you were looking for in the first > > place and also does it really matter any more. > > Where are these? The FreeBSD Documentation Project probably really > wants to know. doc@FreeBSD.org is a good place to send specific > problems to. The man pages should have full pathnames under the ^FILES header. Otherwise, this is a good data-point. > > > Has anybody written HOWTO's for this stuff? If so where are they > > located? > > A good place to look for extra stuff are sites like: > > http://www.daemonnews.org/ > http://www.freebsdzine.org/ > I've forgotten the rest, I'm sure someone else can fill some more in. > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > In the December AnswerMan column (daemonnews.org) we're planning to list all the tutorials from past `Help, I've Fallen' columns and summarize all known sites for this type of information. Help is out there, here and elsewhere. Getting to it should be easier. gary > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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