From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 23:33:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5623237B416 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5877 invoked by uid 100); 18 Mar 2002 07:33:41 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15509.38996.701163.163003@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 01:33:40 -0600 To: Chauncey Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, arnold@vkoppen.com, Matthew Emmerton , "freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Suggestions for handbook Was: Errors when making Kernel In-Reply-To: <20020318072921.GA2120@foo31-146.visit.se> References: <006f01c1cc8c$4135d7e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <00db01c1ce4d$72ce2240$2c14fea9@ultra2000> <15509.38396.729992.906042@guru.mired.org> <20020318072921.GA2120@foo31-146.visit.se> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20020318072921.GA2120@foo31-146.visit.se>, Martin Karlsson typed: > * Mike Meyer [2002-03-18 01.23 -0600]: > > In <00db01c1ce4d$72ce2240$2c14fea9@ultra2000>, Chauncey Smith typed: > > > I've found this to be a very common newbie error. I believe we should > > > document this in the hand book somewhere so that it is available to > > > everyone. How would one go about suggesting something like that to the > > > documention project? > > > > send-pr. Best if you provide a diff to the appropriate source file, > > second best if you provide the text to be added as flat text, worst to > > just make the suggestion. > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html The send-pr man page is a better source for details; it's edited by the people who would have to make the change. Which brings up the thought that possibly there's a non-freebsd.org web site giving advice on how to create a custom kernel and has it wrong. Anyone know of such a site, and how to get it fixed? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message