From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 14:47:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEEC14E0F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09053; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:47:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:47:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Doug Cc: Chris Costello , Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > > > > > No, that's a really stupid idea. > > > > Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look > > for something better, more obvious? Or perhaps it would be in the motd > > like /stand/sysinstall is.... people would need to be aware of this. > > I think your logic is faulty here. There are already many adequate > resources in the motd, but your argument for the 'rtfm script' presupposes > that the person has not looked at the motd, because if they had they > wouldn't need the script. /bin/rtfmsh? > > Honestly, while this is one of those things that sounds good when > you first start talking about it, in practice I don't see what we gain > from it. > > Doug > -- > On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only > nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter > what it does. > -- Will Rogers > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message