Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:14:31 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented? Message-ID: <20020125181431.A81334@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <3C51E685.7090600@pittgoth.com>; from darklogik@pittgoth.com on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:13:09PM -0500 References: <pahepa6pp1.epa@localhost.localdomain> <3C51E685.7090600@pittgoth.com>
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Gee, thanks. :) On my to-do list now, will get to next week hopefully. On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:13:09PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > 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 -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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