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-alan Kathy Slattery wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure what happened to this message, > but I couldn't find this thread until this morning. Very strange. No doubt a > network or server glitch of some sort. > > >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Kathy Slattery >> <kathy.slattery at sun.com> wrote: >> >>> A new version of the OpenSolaris System >>> >> Administration Guide >> >>> that will be included in the Student Pack can be >>> >> found at: >> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/files >>> >> Some quick miscellaneous comments: >> >> It says 'your laptop'. I feel that's a little too >> specific - readers >> may interpret >> that as meaning you can't use other types of >> computer. >> > > OK, I'll remove any specific mentions of "laptop". > We were told to focus on the laptop user when putting the > information together, but I don't need to do that in the text itself. > > >> Page 10. I wouldn't introduce svcadm before >> mentioning svcs. >> > > Do you think I need a section introducing SMF, svcs and svcadm before the > procedure? We we trying to keep things as simple and clean as possible. > Another > option would be to add a reference chapter that covers these topics. What do > you > think would be best? > > >> Page 11/12 modifying NWAM. Step 5. You don't restart >> the service, you enable >> it again. >> >> Page 13 'Manually configuring a wired connection'. >> Step 2. Should disable >> come before enable? Step 3. So how could you tell >> that bge0 is the wired >> interface? I mean, I know that the wired broadcom and >> ath0 the wireless >> atheros, but how does a new user work that out? >> >> Page 14/15 Manually configuring wireless. Same as >> above. Step 6, is that >> "connect-wifi-e" or "connect-wifi -e"? >> > > I think Steff covered most of these issues. There is a space in > the source before the -e. There's another one on page 36, so > I'm not sure why this one isn't rendering properly. I'll look into it. > > >> Page 25 Monitoring ZFS disk space. It should be >> explained that ZFS quotas >> are something different to normal filesystem quotas. >> It may be better not to >> refer to them as quotas at all. Something like 'You >> can limit the >> amount of space >> used by a ZFS filesystem by ...'. (And a note that >> snapshots count against >> the limit too.) >> > > I'll ask Cindy to fix or comment on this one. One of the problems > with a book by multiple writers. I don't "own" all of the text. > > >> Page 27 'How to see available NFS shares' Confused >> me. What's missing from the >> text is that 'localserver' is the host that you want >> to query to see >> what filesystems >> it's exporting. Otherwise it appears in the command >> for no reason. (And would >> 'remoteserver' be a better name?) >> >> > > Remoteserver seems a better name. I'll change it and add a little > more text to make it clearer. > > Thanks again for the comments. > > -Kathy > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Alan McClellan OpenSolaris Documentation Community Manager #32171 +1 719-352-0993 http://blogs.sun.com/docexchange/
