From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 19: 4: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3FB14C23 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a012.otenet.gr [195.167.115.12]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA11688 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:03:37 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 541 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Nov 1999 02:43:18 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General thoughts and questions on FreeBSD References: <3835DD2A.5E9751AE@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <19991122120346.06272@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 23 Nov 1999 04:43:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:03:46 -0500" Message-ID: <86pux2nd16.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 45 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Thank you Greg. > On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 18:28:43 -0500, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > A 'hacker' friend of mine... [snip] > > > The docs seem more sparse for BSD --no NAG, so LPG, no SAG-- but > > maybe I just never poked around enough. > > Well, I suppose we don't have them. At any rate, I don't know what > these TLAs mean. But then, it's not Linux. Just the proper time for an old Linux convert to clarify things a bit. NAG is the ``network administrator's guide'' and the information it contains can be applied, apart from linux that is, to several other unix and unix-like systems. LPG is the ``linux programmer's guide,'' with documentation on application program building, which with the usual minor exception of a very linux-specific thing, applies to *BSD like a charm too. SAG is the ``system administrator's guide.'' A document that described common tasks a sys-admin will have to go through. Useful stuff, and lots of it are handy for *BSD as well. Now, the funny part is that *BSD actually comes with a similar, probably not as up to date, but altogether extremely useful set of similar texts too. They are located in /usr/share/doc/{smm,psd,usd} and I have to admit I had copied all of them on every Linux installation I ever made, before I got the real thing ;) Since they are right there, waiting to be read, but they somehow failed to be noticed by our friend, one can not help wondering if a proper mention in the handbook or the faq would be any useful. Regards. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message