Re: Minor patch to afterboot manpage
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:41:38PM -0500, Walter Goulet wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've recenly installed OpenBSD 3.7 on my Zaurus C3000. While perusing >> the afterboot manpage to figure out how to configure my system, I >> noticed that the manpage indicated that the /etc/rc.conf.local file was >> referred to before the manpage stated that the user had to create this file. >> >> So this patch adds a small paragraph instructing the user to create this >> file immediately after the root password and system date are set. I >> think this makes the page read better and avoids the user referring to >> this file before it is created. >> > hi, i did not take the patch, but decided to put the sections of > afterboot(8) into a more logical order (i hope). > thanks for the report though. please use unified diffs (diff -u) next > time. > jmc Hi, I took a look at the updated manpage; I agree that it now reads more logically and avoids the issue I noticed. Thanks for the quick update! Walter [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
Re: Minor patch to afterboot manpage
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:41:38 -0500, Walter Goulet wrote: > I've recenly installed OpenBSD 3.7 on my Zaurus C3000. While perusing > the afterboot manpage to figure out how to configure my system, I > noticed that the manpage indicated that the /etc/rc.conf.local file was > referred to before the manpage stated that the user had to create this file. This is a good idea. IMHO there could be more like that; but now people will jump at me; because they rather stay off mainstream ... ? I'd personally even have /etc/rc.conf.local in /etc/ at install, with a small comment on top and an upgrade script just ignoring it when it exists in the earlier version. If I was in beauty, I made something similar for rc.local; because I always have to scroll down (had, that is) fearing to touch something, so I also start by copying the files to files.orig. I prefer those rc.* compared to SysV ! Another, minor, item: Not doing this each day, I always need to look up the syntax: YES compared to "". And the new ntpd - setup at install - does ntpd_flags= Some 'standard' would be fine for non-professionals like myself. One day after retirement, I'd even write an 'afterboot' script; asking about ssh protocol version and RootLogin; as well as the three aliases, etc. I also have to look up the fstab entry for ALTROOT regularly; adduser.conf; and so on and so forth. I am sure that would make it easier for everyone newbie including myself to get started. 2 Sen, Uwe
Re: Minor patch to afterboot manpage
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:41:38PM -0500, Walter Goulet wrote: > Hi, > > I've recenly installed OpenBSD 3.7 on my Zaurus C3000. While perusing > the afterboot manpage to figure out how to configure my system, I > noticed that the manpage indicated that the /etc/rc.conf.local file was > referred to before the manpage stated that the user had to create this file. > > So this patch adds a small paragraph instructing the user to create this > file immediately after the root password and system date are set. I > think this makes the page read better and avoids the user referring to > this file before it is created. > hi, i did not take the patch, but decided to put the sections of afterboot(8) into a more logical order (i hope). thanks for the report though. please use unified diffs (diff -u) next time. jmc
