From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 6 08:29:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06630 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06623 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id IAA24824; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810061529.IAA24824@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from symnt3.cadence.com(194.32.101.100) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma907687783.024736; Tue, 6 Oct 98 08:29:44 -0700 Received: from pc287-cam.cadence.com (d194032096136.Cadence.COM [194.32.96.136]) by symnt3.Cadence.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id Q4J1B7J1; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:29:54 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:29:12 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk 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 +0000 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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/. Many > > configuration files in /etc include .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/.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