On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:34:58AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Michael Biebl put forth on 2/2/2010 2:18 AM: > > On 27.01.2010 22:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> > >> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/ > >> > >> My Linux machines are all headless, and I've never bothered with trying to > >> symlink all the various html doc directories into lighty virtual > >> directories > >> just to get access to them via a browser. That is a huge waste of OP time. > >> This penchant for html documentation is a PITA for administering headless > >> servers. Quite frankly, this really surprises me in the case or rsyslog. > >> The > >> folks around the world most likely to be making serious use of rsyslog > >> capabilities (not casual use) are the most likely to be running a > >> datacenter > >> full of headless servers without easy access to these html doc directories. > >> Plain text versions of all Debian/Linux system documentation should be > >> included > >> by default. I'm guessing the rsyslog folks don't provide plain text only > >> documentation, and the Debian rsyslog maintainers didn't want to take the > >> time > >> to create a plain text only version of the docs. > >> > >> How about the case for headless servers that don't run a web server at > >> all? How > >> then does an admin access this html documentation for rsyslog? This is a > >> sad > >> state of affairs IMO. > > > > You can use lynx or w3m for viewing html files on the console or via SSH. > > That said,
[snip] > > Thanks for the tips wrt lynx and w3m. However, this rant motivated me to go > ahead and symlink /usr/share/doc/ to a Lighty virtual directory shortly after > I > sent the rant above. I assumed I'll probably run into this html doc problem > again so I took the Nike commercial advice. ;) aptitude install dwww -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org