Re: a proposal for the FAQ

On 01/04/2013 06:29, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all, Over the past several months I have been working on a project called ThwackAFAQ. For those who don't know this project has been to review, edit, and rewrite the FAQ to be relevant to

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

I remember reading this and the gmirror stuff at the same time and wondering what it was all about. Whilst I'm generally not in favour of chucking stuff out of a manual if it exists on the ground, at the very least this could do with a sanity warning. At the time I had no way of knowing whether

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

On 25/06/2013 18:47, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 25/06/2013 16:43, Warren Block wrote: Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The vinum Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum. Actually, it is really now about gvi

Fixing the man page for renice

Okay - I've been around here for some time but I haven't actually changed anything. I'm hoping someone will sanity check the following as a reasonable course of action, as I really don't want to mess anything up. I'm reading: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/index.html T

Re: Fixing the man page for renice

On 06/07/2013 16:28, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: Okay - I've been around here for some time but I haven't actually changed anything. I'm hoping someone will sanity check the following as a reasonable course of action, as

Re: Fixing the man page for renice

On 06/07/2013 22:19, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 06/07/2013 16:28, Glen Barber wrote: Thanks Glen - the "patch" business is what's putting me off! I'm sure once I've done it, nothing will stop me. Is there a page or *really

Re: 4.12 Binary Formats

On 08/08/2013 01:11, Hugh O'Brien wrote: Hi there, I'm a relatively long time user but was recently reading through the handbook to see if there was anything I could learn when I found this section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/binary-formats.html It's an interesti

Re: its freebsd easy as MAC

The Macintosh and Windows user environments hide the complexities, allowing unskilled server administrators to do a limited number of things in an easy way without any understanding of the underlying technology. This is what a lot of people want. Underneath the wizards, the Macintosh OS is ver

Re: GEOM meaning

On 04/02/2014 10:46, Dieter Lange wrote: Hi, having looked at quite a few sites now, not just I still cannot find out what "GEOM" means (wrt disks etc., not geography or so). It probably does not mean "Modular Disk Transf

Re: GEOM meaning

On 04/02/2014 11:57, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 04/02/2014 10:46, Dieter Lange wrote: Hi, having looked at quite a few sites now, not just <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom.html> I still cannot find out what "GEOM" means (wrt disks etc., not

Re: poor fusefs documentation

On 04/02/2014 15:25, CeDeROM wrote: Hello :-) I am trying to use various fusefs mounters but the documentation for this seems to be inconsistent and incomplete or missing at all in Handbook. There is only mount_fusefs utility that refers to fuse_daemon that does not exist. It is impossible to mo

Re: poor fusefs documentation

On 04/02/2014 17:32, Allan Jude wrote: On 2014-02-04 11:28, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 04/02/2014 15:25, CeDeROM wrote: Hello :-) I am trying to use various fusefs mounters but the documentation for this seems to be inconsistent and incomplete or missing at all in Handbook. There is only

Re: CCTV (off topic)

In case anyone was wondering what kind of idiot would post this, I decided to give them a call. It probably was sent by on or behalf of a legitimate small company, albeit down-market at £50 per camera. They paid for a list that went to business in the north-west of England. The spam was sent ou

Re: Downplaying a serious issue

On 03/04/2014 12:36, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:47:02AM +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: Glen Barber writes: It is not a doc problem. The issue is specific to certain hardware configurations, and unless anyone has made any breakthroughs that I am unaware of, the

System calls documentation - where's it at?

Sorry for the cross-post but this has remained unanswered in FreeBSD-Questions for a week now: = It's probably obvious, but not quite obvious enough for me right now... Where's there a list of FreeBSD kernel (system) calls? I can't believe I've never needed one before - I guess I'

Re: BSD For Linux Users (update)

On 01/03/2013 19:08, Diane Bruce wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:33:57AM -0700, Derek Wood wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -, s...@tormail.org wrote: My question to you: Would anyone here be interested in updating it (or just helping a bit) to be more accurate with the modern Fr

Re: d...@freebsd.org is expiring in 3 days. Please confirm your email now.

On 17 August 2019 03:08:47 BST, "Clay Daniels Jr." wrote: >Excuse my ignorance, but I don't want to get off the list. I looked at: >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc >and could not see how to "confirm my email". > >Clay > Me too. --- Sent from my Cray X-MP _