On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:52:24PM -0500, Denny White wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote: > > > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > > http://bhami.com/rosetta.html > > > > > > > > As always, it is a shame that those types of pages have so many > > > > errors. > > > > > > > > [snip: examples] > > > > It is just sad. > > > > > > It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. > > > > > > > > > # Han > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:11:26AM -0500, Marco Peereboom spoke thusly: > > Right, let me put on my hippie robes so that we can sing koombaya. > > Obviously it doesn't matter that website is spewing shit; it is the > > thought that counts. > > > > For what it's worth, I never meant to stir up a hornet's nest on the > list. The guy's got a mailto link and welcomes all corrections. He > answers promptly, too. I guess it's being done in the spirit of open > source. You know, where everyone is welcome to pitch in constructively? > Hence, the link for "Contributions and corrections gratefully accepted". > I already wrote to him about what Theo spotted right off and got an > answer he will correct it as soon as possible. I went back again, > clicked on 'set all OS' and 'Draw table', and can find no shutdown > command ref for OpenBSD. There's just a ? there. Checked OpenBSD in > the box, again clicked 'Draw Table' and got the same. Maybe the person > who wrote the previous message pertaining to that command looked at > the wrong column. Or hell, maybe I did. It's apparent it's a work in > progress. Kind of like release schedules, applying patches, etc. Things > improve with time. Why not pitch in and help the guy? Or not. Point is, > he's trying. I guess he could take the 'Sysadmin' out at the top of the > page, possibly misleading to a newbie, but he's also got good links to > the OpenBSD FAQ's and man pages. Those ARE definitive guides and users > are warned about that early on, both in the documentation and on the > mailing lists. If they choose to try to shortcut and use something they > found like on the site in question and it bites them in the butt, they > only have themselves to blame. I don't think any sysadmin worth his > salt would blindly follow everything on the site. >
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