Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:11:02 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <361A6B46.73B4851@plutotech.com> References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com> <19981006083809.00946@follo.net> <19981006173417.64829@welearn.com.au> <19981006174328.65315@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund wrote: > Does the following look better? > > DON'T run pppd (as opposed to /usr/sbin/ppp) unless you either > (a) already have a working setup, or > (b) absolutely need the 2% reduction of CPU usage it will give > you. > Running the kernel PPP will not buy you much, it is harder to > setup, it is less maintained, it has fewer features, and it > will give you much more problems if you later find out you > want to put your local network online through PPP (the natd comment > below) Much better, yes! An initiate in the strange world that is FreeBSD can read the one-to-two sentences of advice and follow them without question; while the journeyman (journeyperson?) can read the reasoning why and be educated. I like to think I'm beyond the journeyman stage, but I found myself becoming suspicious of the dos and don'ts without their matching explanations. Some other observations: * Many of the dos and don'ts have a common theme that if it's already working then don't worry. How about we just factor that out into the common maxim: "If it isn't broken, don't fix it," and stick it up at the top. * "man rcsintro" ... having the machine track things is great, but sometimes the paper record kept on the shelf is more durable than a failed upgrade or other catastrophe. * "/etc/<configfile>.local" ... maybe we could explicitly list all the config files that support this, to assist the newbies who wouldn't know how to determine this otherwise. Take care. --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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