From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 7 16: 7:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56EBC37B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 78498 invoked by uid 100); 8 Mar 2001 00:07:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15014.52548.792343.819247@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:07:32 -0600 To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Kris Kennaway , Mike Meyer , Kal Torak , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: Security Level in Sysinstall In-Reply-To: <20010307235635.A3F0F3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010307154408.A45006@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010307235635.A3F0F3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman types: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:41:50PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Dima Dorfman types: > > > > I've submitted a PR (25537) to get something like that added to > > > > sysinstall's help system (pressing "F1"), but noone's looked at it yet > > > > :-/. It answers this question and possibly many others that have come > > > > up in the last few weeks. > > > I was thinking about bundling it up as a FAQ entry - would that still > > > be useful? Do we want a place unconnected with the code documenting it? > > Certainly can't hurt for post-install reference. Jordan was also > > talking about documenting it in sysinstall. > > Sysinstall seems like the logical place for it. It's much easier to > push "F1" than to go searching through the FAQ for it. Also, remember > that some people don't have more than one computer, and thus can't > access the web-based documentation while they're in sysinstall; > they've probably printed the installation instructions from the > handbook, but how many people print the entire FAQ (it's over 10000 > lines in SGML; I imagine it's at least half of that rendered) before > they proceed to install FreeBSD? > > That said, an FAQ entry still can't hurt. I don't know if it should > use the same text as the sysinstall help (if that goes in). Mike, do > you want to do it, or should I (if you do, at least look at the PR for > ideas of what to put there). > Yup - if you want to figure out what you did during the install, the FAQ seems like a more logical place to look than sysinstall. At least to me. It might make sense to recommend checking sysinstall as a possibly more up-to-date source of info as well. Well, I'm always willing to let someone else do work if they're willing. If you want me to do it, could you provide a URL for the PR again? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message