[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-autoconfig: drop for 0.5.0 release?

2007-09-05 Thread Al Chu
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:01 -0700, Peter Broadwell wrote: > Al - > > The sample man page looks much improved over the old stuff, thanks. > > The "header comments" also seem like a step in the right direction. > In addition to what you mention: > > # This section is for configuring blah blah bl

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-autoconfig: drop for 0.5.0 release?

2007-09-05 Thread Al Chu
Hey Peter, > Perhaps what is needed is a wiki or some such where real world > problem/solutions examples can accumulate? For FreeIPMI 0.5.0, I've been adding a lot of additional information to the FreeIPMI manpages. For example: --- GENERAL USE Most users of bmc-config will want to:

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-autoconfig: drop for 0.5.0 release?

2007-09-05 Thread Al Chu
I had begun working on a template to store in the docs directory, with comments throughout the file to inform the user of what they should configure on their own. However, with so many different BMCs and vendor implementations out there, a substantial portion of the default template will fail for