Yes, this makes sense. Thanks. Perhaps "configuring generic services" says it better, but I understand now what you mean. And yes, there is a serious need for these types of docs.
I don't always skip right to the examples, but I usually use them to clarify what the other text is trying to say. :-) Blake wrote: > Standard configs. > > Maybe 'generic' is a better term. I'm not a career Solaris guy, and I > know a lot of other new Solaris users like myself that are trying to > do what in the Win/Linux world are common, simple tasks. Examples > that spring to mind are Samba fileservices, local DNS, simple > website/Apache setup. These are things that more users will want to > do now that we have Open Solaris in the mix. Granted, Solaris is in > some ways overkill for this stuff, but I/we would certainly like to > see Solaris take it's rightful place in the low/mid tier market as > well as the high end. > > Writing up example walkthroughs with actual configurations (conf > files, service manifests, flat file configs) listed in the documents > would help the Win/Linux crossover crowd a lot I think. I don't know > about you, but I always skip to the 'examples' section of a man page > if it's available :) > > Am I making sense? > > Blake > > -- > 'His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the > whole world - samurai movies and the Macintosh - and he understood > them far, far too well.' - Snow Crash Ah, Snow Crash. That was many moons ago. :-) Rainer
