Good point!! I try to read them, but are still not experienced enough to make sense of them (some times), but I have actually had the same feeling a few times :-)
I find that the biggest problem is to find the correct man-page, if I want to "see how my resources are used", thats very hard to find in man (IMHO), but once you found "top", they are great... :-) Danjel On 1 Aug 2009 at 19:08, Chris Bennett wrote: > A good while ago, learning step by step how to do new, useful things, > I added spamd. I was very pleased with the results. I had carefully > read the man pages and some other pages about spamd. At the time, I > got most of it, but I did not really understand a few points. Oh, > well. It worked anyway. > > Over time, incoming spam has gotten worse. I have spent lots of time > watching stuff passing through spamd. Kept seeing the same, no longer > existing, email address being hit. > > So I had new, extra interest in problem. Finally I wanted to make a > change, needed to read man page to remember how. Lo and Behold! Those > things I did not understand earlier, now with some experience, were > quite clear! Not only did I make the change I was trying to do, but I > immediately saw I had messed up my setup originally (only slightly, > but still not the best). > > Lesson: (my particular example is not really important) > Not only are the man pages very complete, there is a real value in a > second or third glance at some later date. > > The man pages however, are not always the best tutor, but they are the > first stop and occasionally a real bonus to look at again, even a few > years later. > > Chris Bennett > > -- > A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, > butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance > accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, > give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new > problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight > efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. > -- Robert Heinlein > > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
