From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 19:11:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA23141 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23136 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA03364; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:06:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03624; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:10:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA12244; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:10:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:10:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801050310.WAA12244@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Charlie Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Access Apache Manual Files (THANK GOD) In-Reply-To: <19980105012506.6899.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> References: <19980105012506.6899.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 4 January, 1998, at 17:25 (-0800) Charlie Roots wrote: > Hi Brian, > Thank God someone (you) have finally answered Mr. Geoffrey for his > very simple question, that kept popping up day after day for the past > week or so. > > I wonder if one should ask the same question to the same people over > and over again, in ALL the possible ways. > > Apparently the cause was that he was asking for something that simply > DID NOT EXIST in life. > > Man, you'll find over 90 % of people who installed Apache and have a > working Web Site, did manage even without reading a single document. [ Remainder of obnoxiousness elided. ] Wow. I sure hope I didn't convey the same sense of sarcasm--nay, outright meanness--in my answer as you did in your message. Y'know, you really ought to be careful jumping down someone else's throat for asking a naive question, particularly when it's so simple to search the mailing list archives and determine that, you, too, have asked a few, erm, "uninformed" questions yourself. Just do a search for "osiris2002@yahoo.com" in the mailing list archives, and peruse through the things that pop up. Some of them are quite recent, as a matter of fact. Try remembering what it's like to feel lost and uninformed. And if the frequency of a particular topic starts to annoy you, there's always procmail to filter away messages you don't like. (Oh, and before you congratulate me for *my* message, do please note that I didn't quite get it right, either. As Marc Slemko points out, there *are* some man pages available with Apache, ones the port doesn't install and ones I missed in my search of the source--*despite* my authoritative-sounding statement that they didn't exist. You win some, you lose some.) ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.