That is not an RTFM. The QMail documentation said nothing about inetd syntax being different on different systems. I posted an email saying that it didn't work, posted what steps I did, and even referred to the fact that this is what the manual said to do. Dave Sills response was most certainly NOT of the RTFM variety. Dave Sill brought information forward that was NOT in the qmail manual about the qmail installation procedures. RTFM is what you say to a person who apparently did not read the manual. If your installing QMail, and you print out each documentation file, (not that easy to do if your using windows, since the doc files are "identical" to windows listing ie. INSTALL and install are 2 files in UNIX and only one file in Windows), highlight the parts you need, make substitutions where appropriate (for example adding steps for Maildirs when a portion of the doc assumes Mailboxes) and then run through the tests, checking each step, making sure everythihng was typed in correctly and then being stuck with apparently one piece that doesn't work (smtp), writing up the problem, specifying what was done, isn't an RTFM situation. I quite correctly speculated that there must be something different, I didn't know what, about my Linux setup. I was told that I was wrong. I was told that all the qmail setups were the same, that it didn't matter onto what version of LINUX I was installing. It does matter, and it also matters wether you've installed a firewall. Telling me to run man inetd on my system and compare it to the syntax of the inetd is useful. It is not RTFM. RTFM means "don't be lazy, Read The F-- Manual". It has absolutely nothing to do with Dave's correct and helpful response. My instinct was correct, something WAS different about my environment because, following the directions exactly still didn't work. I needed to compare the directions, the M in RTFM, with the syntax on my system. Alex Miller > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 1:15 PM > To: Alex Miller > Subject: Re: Howto > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:03:35AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: > > I made another mistake. I posted this problem at the time on > this mailing > > list questioning wether something might be different about my particular > > Linux (Linux Mandrake - Redhat with KDE) installation. At that > time instead > > of someone, saying, "yes, there are different flavors of inetd > and you need > > do do a man inetd on your system > > That's funny. Some idiot was suggesting that RTFM responses shouldn't > be allowed. > > -- > John White johnjohn > at > triceratops.com > PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp >
