Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:29:12 +0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <199810061529.IAA24824@mailgate.cadence.com> In-Reply-To: <19981006165337.63858@follo.net> References: <199810060831.BAA28468@mailgate.cadence.com>; from Duncan Barclay on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:30:44AM %2B0000
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> On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:30:44AM +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > I sat down and wrote up a small list of these, for new users. I > > A few suggestions: > > > > DO use RCS for storing configuration files in /etc once your machine > > is set up or write it down in a note book. Otherwise, you will forget > > the majic one line change in /etc/<somenotobvious>. Many > > configuration files in /etc include <foo>.local so use it. > > RCS might be a bit hard on the beginner; I moved it later and split > this into two points. Do the following look OK? > > DO keep a notebook of which configuration changes you do as you > first > set up the machine; you _will_ find it useful. At some point, > you may want to look at 'man rcsintro' for details of how you > can have the machine remember it for you. > > DO separate out changes in /etc/<configfile>.local whereever this > applies - it will make updates much easier. > > The use of 'man rcsintro' instead of rcsintro(1) is intentional - I > don't think we can expect beginners to understand the name(section) > syntax. Looks fine. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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