> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote: > > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > http://bhami.com/rosetta.html > > > > > > As always, it is a shame that those types of pages have so many > > > errors. > > > > > > [snip: examples] > > > It is just sad. > > > > It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. > > > > > > # Han > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:11:26AM -0500, Marco Peereboom spoke thusly: > Right, let me put on my hippie robes so that we can sing koombaya. > Obviously it doesn't matter that website is spewing shit; it is the > thought that counts. >
For what it's worth, I never meant to stir up a hornet's nest on the list. The guy's got a mailto link and welcomes all corrections. He answers promptly, too. I guess it's being done in the spirit of open source. You know, where everyone is welcome to pitch in constructively? Hence, the link for "Contributions and corrections gratefully accepted". I already wrote to him about what Theo spotted right off and got an answer he will correct it as soon as possible. I went back again, clicked on 'set all OS' and 'Draw table', and can find no shutdown command ref for OpenBSD. There's just a ? there. Checked OpenBSD in the box, again clicked 'Draw Table' and got the same. Maybe the person who wrote the previous message pertaining to that command looked at the wrong column. Or hell, maybe I did. It's apparent it's a work in progress. Kind of like release schedules, applying patches, etc. Things improve with time. Why not pitch in and help the guy? Or not. Point is, he's trying. I guess he could take the 'Sysadmin' out at the top of the page, possibly misleading to a newbie, but he's also got good links to the OpenBSD FAQ's and man pages. Those ARE definitive guides and users are warned about that early on, both in the documentation and on the mailing lists. If they choose to try to shortcut and use something they found like on the site in question and it bites them in the butt, they only have themselves to blame. I don't think any sysadmin worth his salt would blindly follow everything on the site. -- Denny White =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A ===============================================================
