Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:26:26 -0200 "Yves Junqueira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > It may be much cleaner to include help links /etc/motd, adivising the > user to read a hipothetical > "/usr/share/doc/linux-beginners/new-users", or enter a help-mode by > typing a certain command. Much cleaner, b

Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Thomas Viehmann [Thu, Oct 19 2006, 10:58:42AM]: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Or we could mimic FreeBSD behaviour: create a fortune-file with helpful > > tips for newbies, and add a line in the default initialization files > > (i.e., those in /etc/skel) for different shells that calls fo

Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:58:42AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Or we could mimic FreeBSD behaviour: create a fortune-file with helpful > > tips for newbies, and add a line in the default initialization files > > (i.e., those in /etc/skel) for different shells that cal

Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Or we could mimic FreeBSD behaviour: create a fortune-file with helpful > tips for newbies, and add a line in the default initialization files > (i.e., those in /etc/skel) for different shells that calls fortune for > those tips. You mean like fortunes-debian-hints[1]? Ki

Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:26:26AM -0200, Yves Junqueira wrote: > It may be much cleaner to include help links /etc/motd, adivising the > user to read a hipothetical > "/usr/share/doc/linux-beginners/new-users", or enter a help-mode by > typing a certain command. Or we could mimic FreeBSD behaviou

Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-18 Thread Yves Junqueira
Forwarding to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yves Junqueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 17, 2006 2:42 PM Subject: Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help? To: Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 10/17/06, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro