Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:13:09 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented? Message-ID: <3C51E685.7090600@pittgoth.com> References: <pahepa6pp1.epa@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > In a recent -questions thread, a Linux refugee gave up trying to > determine how to set the clock. (There are two of them which may be > set, but I'll leave the issue related to that for a PR.) It's not > documented in the Handbook or FAQ, "make -k clock" is no help, and "make > -k time" gives 840 words in 80 lines that few will find "date" in. > > I'm wondering whether such things should be documented in the Handbook. > Several posters seemed to think that he was an idiot for not knowing > that "date" sets the clock, either because it's traditional Unix or it's > in Unix books or man pages. > > I seemed to me that an OS Handbook should be like the User's Manuals > which (used to?) come with OSes and other software. The man pages are > more like the Reference Manual, and the Handbook is more like the User > Manual which should even have things like "how to set the clock" or even > "how to delete a file". (Even if brief as referring to a man page.) > Maybe this should be put in a companion book. Or maybe nobody wants to > write all this info and it's best to refer to a commercial book or a > few, which ever are most BSD-centric. But even then there probably > ought to be a section which handles things which are not standard Unix > (BSD or SysV?) or even, someone suggested, a "surprises for Linux users" > section. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > > > Send it over to Mr FAQ... "How do I set the time on my FreeBSD System" or do we have that already? -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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