Hi all, So, time for the next version of the tutorial it seems. The next version should be released this afternoon/night if nothing goes wrong. A brief summary of what has happened:
I have been sick for a couple of days last week, so I have focused on getting all of the old stuff lying around finished. This means that the whole "how a rule is written" chapter is by now almost finished (ie, there are a few things that I will have to look closer at before actually letting it go). Also, I have spent a lot of time going through the DocBook code, which should now be much nicer and cleaner. Also, I have gone through the whole tutorial to make a huge set of highlightings and markups within the text, as well as rewriting sections of the tutorial which was bad from a grammatical point etcetera. I must also admit that I have made a pretty bad mistake previously with all of those mirroring scripts etcetera. I will still maintain that approach, however, I was so damn stuck on that approach before that I couldn't see the other solutions at hand. Anyways, I have figured out a simpler way of working out the links within the HTML documents. I have now added rules to the makefile which will get rid of the full URL's and replace them with relative URL's to the scripts, which should work, whereever the site is mirrored to. A huge apology to, first of all, Dave Wreski for all of the inconvenience I have put you through with being my normal stubborn self;). Anyways, to my knowledge there should be no special requirements to mirror this site as of now, but the scripts should still work properly and they will be maintained just in case something comes up that makes it necessary to use them again. The next version of this tutorial will mainly be a huge bug fix since I have been unable to work anything at all on those while being sick. I have some 30-40 mails lying here that highlights certain problems or smaller bugs etcetera, and hopefully all of them should be incorporated by version 1.1.9 of this tutorial, which I also hope should be the last version of this tutorial for some time since I will move over and start working on some other projects for a while. Also, I hope that I will have the time to go through all the scripts and the rc.firewall chapter as well as the example scripts chapter and have everything fixed there. Among other things, I have already finished up a small plan for how all the scripts should be disected which needs to be fulfilled, as well as a hunt through the scripts for which modules are needed exactly as well as which ipsysctl options should be turned on or off, etcetera. On a sidenote from those other projects, I have chosen to rearrange the order in which I will work. I will now write a brief tutorial on ipsysctl first of all, and then go on to write something larger on iproute2. The ipsysctl will most likely be extremely brief, something like 40-50 A4 pages as it looks now. I have already written some 10 A4 pages on it, so it is looking quite ok. If anyone has any questions, or if you or anyone has found problems or bugs within the tutorial, contact me and I will have a look at it ASAP so they may be incorporated with the next version of the tutorial. Have a nice day, Oskar Andreasson http://www.boingworld.com http://people.unix-fu.org/andreasson/ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
