"Steve Bertrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > The article requires the use of the command "gifconfig" which does not > >> > exit on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine. Is this a typo in the manual, or > >> have > >> > I missed something? > >> > >> Just did a quick google for "no gifconfig freebsd 5", and in the sparc64 > >> relnotes, I found this: > >> > >> "gifconfig(8) is obsolete and has been removed. Its functionality is now > >> handled by the tunnel and deletetunnel commands of ifconfig(8)." > >> > >> Here's the link. If it's taken out of sparc, I'm assuming that it's > >> obsolete for the others as well... > >> > >> http://jamesthornton.com/freebsd/5.0/relnotes-sparc64.html > > > > This should probably be passed on to the doc team. Anyone have time to > > put together a patch to update the handbook? > > > > [doc team CCed] > > Although I've always been intrigued in the arena of actually making a > doc/code patch contribution to any open source project, I feel this a very > good time to look into howto perform this type of task. > > I'll review the FreeBSD developers handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ > > tomorrow to find out more on how I can do this. It's something I've always > wanted to do, and it seems like a great opportunity for me to get 'right > into' making an actual contribution for what I have so freely taken. > > Any other resources I can be pointed to for making Doc contributions will > be graciously accepted for mine, and hopefully others interest.
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