On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:27:13PM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >The man page are not meant for this, there scope is limmited to the > >command. Books and article are. In fact the FreeBSD handbook have a > >section about this. > > Yet of all the email on this topic, nobody pointed out this most > excellent article.
I was wondering about that to. Its not that hard to find, since it has a link on the main page of the website. > Of the many problems with the man page system, this is one that has > always been a torn in my side. I feel that man pages should have a > "getting started" section, even if it only points to articles like the > one you suggested. > There is usaly a refereal section at the end of the manual. It is a idee to included a URL there. This is not possible for non-systems (aka comming from the ports). > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- > >ntp.html > > > >P.S. Its a good article. :-) > > I agree. It's a shame that the first place that people turn for help > (the man pages) doesn't refer to it. I meant you article here. (This may not have bin clear). I find the link is also good. I don't agree on the the shame part. I find the documentation of FreeBSD excelent. The startging point, realy, is the website (www.freebsd.org) and from there one can come to lots of mailinglist, newsgroups, article, and the handbook. I use FreeBSD for these reasons. The handbook is the starting your looking for. I feel that in this case the starter of this tread knew what he wanted to do, but not knew what he needed. I feel that he never would have read one the manuals, because of that. This mailinglist is, amoung other questions, for questions like his. Alex _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"