On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:15:07 +0100 poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just doesn't make sense. i wanted an answer within a day, didn't have > time to read the man pages so posted a question to misc and got an > answer (within a day).
What *you* want is rather irrelevant. > When i post to misc I hope some kind folk will receive it in the manner > intended (i.e. a newbie attempting to grasp a solid foundation in BSD > concepts). Yes I realise I could gain this from reading every single man > page but that is not realistic (maybe it is for people with nothing > better to do at that time). Ever heard of "apropos" and "man -k"? And really, it's not THAT difficult to find the man page for syslogd... > i run a box with openbsd in my spare time - i'm not going to pay for > someone to do it for me. If you dont want to pay I guess you'll just have to do your own homework, eh? > it seems a lot of people assume that openbsd enthusiasts actually have > an unlimited time to find the answers to every single question they will > ever have. It seems many people who post on misc@ seem to think the openbsd users exists solely to answer their questions, no matter how many time's they'e been answered before. --- Lars Hansson
