From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 08:50:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org 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 55A2116A4DA for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 08:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pittgoth.com (ns1.pittgoth.com [216.38.206.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9C043D45 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 08:50:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (net-ix.gw.ai.net [205.134.160.6] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k828oi4m071609 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:50:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:50:32 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Toby Burress Message-Id: <20060902045032.4e3715d3.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060831224144.GV12159@cobalt.delete.org> References: <20060831224144.GV12159@cobalt.delete.org> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Common utilities X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:50:50 -0000 On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:41:44 -0400 Toby Burress wrote: > I've been working on a docbook book for a while now and I'd like > to get some feedback before I go much further. > > The purpose is to be a guidebook listing various utilities available > in FreeBSD that a new (or not so new) admin might not be familiar > with or, if he/she knows about them, perhaps he doesn't quite know > what they can do. > > Right now I basically have a skeleton of utilities written up. You > can find the HTML at http://www.causa-sui.net/common-utils/ and the > SGML at http://www.causa-sui.net/cu-src.tar.bz2. > > Please let me know what you think, all comments welcome, etc. > Specifically let me know if you think this is different enough from > the handbook to warrant its own book (to me the handbook seems > task-oriented, whereas this project has no specific tasks in mind, > its only goal is to breed awareness and perhaps familiarity). Sure does look like an interesting idea. Keeping up with changes in utilities might be a full time job though. I'm guessing the manual pages do not explain things well enough? -- Tom Rhodes