Every car manual specifies what kind of gas you use, haven't you read yours?
I no longer drive my own car, I ride a bianchi and do most of my own
repairs.
I have read the manual for each car that I have driven, as well as other
vehicles, such as the Cessna 150, and Cessna 152 (those are both airplanes,
those specify gas and many other things)
I assume you made a typo when you compared my reading the QMail
documentation when attempting to install QMail to learning to use your car
by reading your car stereo manual.
I didn't read the wrong manual. I read the correct one, and more. That's my
habit. This particular manual even makes a point of including many steps
which are "read this document" as an actual step. Which of course I did.
It's good advice.
Question: since, as you say, every competent system administrator needs to
know the syntax of the base networking deamons his system uses, why don't
you save us idiots some time. The following could be included in the QMail
documentation since it is required knowledge.
"To get the syntax of any system daemon, for example inetd, type "man inetd"
at the system prompt.
Here is a list of the base network system daemons, including firewall
daemons you need to know the syntax of to install qmail:
1) inetd
..."
Why don't you fill in the rest Adam. This sounds like a REALLY useful list,
that would be useful to anyone on the list. I wish I had such a list
beforehand. I wish I had such a list now.
Or were you just talking.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam D. McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Howto
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> > That is not an RTFM.
> >
> > The QMail documentation said nothing about inetd syntax being
> different on
> > different systems.
>
> Oh please. This is like saying "I was looking in my car stereo manual and
> it didn't say anything about what kind of gas to use! So I tried
> using diesel
> fuel and it wrecked my engine!"
>
> Any competent system administrator needs to know the syntax that the base
> networking daemons on his operating system use, and if he doesn't know the
> syntax, he should at least know where to look it up.
>
> --Adam
>
