From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 22 22:53:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA02152 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.win.net (ns2.win.net [204.215.209.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02147 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from launchpad.win.net (uucp@localhost) by ns2.win.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id BAA19920 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:37:09 -0500 Received: by win.net!launchpad; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:32:13 X-Mailer: WinNET Mail, v4.0c Message-ID: Reply-To: fbsd-isp@launchpad.win.net (Joe Mays - freebsd-isp) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:32:13 -0400 Subject: ISP Startup Docs (Was: News on FreeBSD) From: fbsd-isp@launchpad.win.net (Joe Mays - freebsd-isp) Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I don't suppose some of you ISP folks would consider taking a walk on >the wild side with SGML and begin writing up a little "ISP's Guide to >FreeBSD", much as Paul Vixie has done for BSDI? Definitely. For many applications, a simple series of steps that would get a basic version of the application up and running would silence a lot of questions. For instance, it isn't necessary to describe every way an Apache server can be set up. If you give someone a simple document that says, "Follow these steps and you will have a basic Apache server running on your FreeBSD server," then 90% of the questions are answered and the reader can usually figure out a lot of the configuration options from there. The following documents would probably save a lot of redundant questions: Starting a basic web server. Starting a basic FTP server. Starting a basic popmail server. Starting a basic news server. Any others that people would like to see? Joe Mays