Typo in Example 19.1 in Handbook?

2013-12-16 Thread Mike.
This example http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html#idp80661168 has the text "...Reboot the system, and at the loader(8) prompt, press 4 to boot into single user mode. Then enter the following commands:..." I run FreeBSD 9.2, and the 'boot into single user mode' option shows a

Re: The future of the roff toolchain

2017-05-21 Thread Mike Karels
On 21 May 2017, at 15:36, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: What I want to propose now, it to render them as PDF (html?) once and push them somewhere (to be defined) as static document on our documentation website. Please doceng@ pro

Handbook suggestion: Dealing with Moved Ports

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Brown
st sentence of ch. 5.8 from "If you come across a port that does not compile" to "If you come across a port that does not build or install properly".) Thanks for considering my requests. - Mike ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Handbook suggestion: Dealing with Moved Ports

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Brown
e I've seen it in lots of UPDATING entries. I feel we should document it either way. It would be especially useful if it's true that UPDATING is for bigger gotchas than this kind of move. -Mike [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-May/083946.html ___

docs/179914: remove inactive user dougb from mergemaster maintainers

2013-06-23 Thread Mike Brown
eywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 24 03:10:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Brown >Release:FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: Fr

stale Handbook chapters online need to be removed

2013-09-07 Thread Mike Brown
Old but still sitting around, showing up in search engine results: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-dialup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html Current versions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Au

docs/181928: on website, remove old Handbook files affected by move/rename

2013-09-07 Thread Mike Brown
eywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 08 04:40:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Brown >Release:n/a >Organization: >Environment: n/a >Description: On

docs/182087: First question in FreeBSD FAQ has grammatical error

2013-09-14 Thread Mike Brown
>Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 14 12:20:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Brown >Release:FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: n/a >Descripti

Proposal to move Sendmail encryption info to Electronic Mail chapter

2013-11-23 Thread Mike Brown
In the Security chapter, the section 14.8.2 (OpenSSL - Using Certificates) currently just gives one example: using certificates to enable the "STARTTLS" SMTP command in Sendmail, for the purpose of establishing an encrypted connection that hides cleartext passwords sent during authentication (wh

Re: Patch (WIP): New security front matter; new shell redirection section

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Brown
Tom Rhodes wrote: > + Passwords are a necessary evil of the past. In the cases > + they must be used, not only should the password be extremely > + complex, but also use a powerful hash mechanism to protect it. > + At the time of this writing, &os; supports > + DES, MD5, Blowf

sh(1) man page suggestion: prompt string syntax

2015-07-03 Thread Mike Brown
I was having trouble finding out what escape codes are valid in an sh(1) prompt. The man page does not say, so I looked at /usr/src/bin/sh/parser.c and determined what the options are. Please consider adding this info to the man page, /usr/src/bin/sh/sh.1 : A prompt string must be less than 12

update needed on FreeBSD wiki: BeagleBone Black HDMI support

2015-09-14 Thread Mike Brown
Someone needs to update https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack to move "HDMI output / framebuffer" from the "What still needs to be done" section to the "What works" section. Also strike out the first item in the Known Issues section and add "Fixed in r284534" (or maybe r285868...see

Re: update needed on FreeBSD wiki: BeagleBone Black HDMI support

2015-09-14 Thread Mike Brown
Thanks for the edits. Additional comment below. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:55:36PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Also at the bottom of the page the mention of 10.2-RELEASE needs to be > > 10.2-STABLE. > > I don't know about that, so I left it alone. If you follow the FTP link, you'll see tha

man: zpool replace inconsistency

2018-10-16 Thread Mike via freebsd-doc
On page: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html = zpool replace [-f] pool device [new_device] Replaces old_device with new_device. This is equivalent to attaching new_devic