Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-08 Thread David L. Mills
Jan, A thousand roses for saying that, in particular the point about having an audit trail. I've been burned many times about errors in document reformats that were either cached with errors or simple broken in translation. Dave Jan Ceuleers wrote: Harlan, Harlan Stenn wrote: Jan I

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-07 Thread Jan Ceuleers
Harlan, Harlan Stenn wrote: Jan I really hate being sent from left to right in search of Jan documentation. This includes stub man pages pointing me at html or info Jan pages. Ideally I'd want to be able to select the documentation format Jan on a system I'm responsible for myself (i.e. as a

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes: When I wrote that I was unaware of the html page. I'm a Unix guy and I generally don't even consider looking for html docs - I am used to (and expect) man pages. Hal Me too. Me too. Many other folks agree as well. Hal

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Jan Ceuleers
Hal Murray wrote: When I wrote that I was unaware of the html page. I'm a Unix guy and I generally don't even consider looking for html docs - I am used to (and expect) man pages. Me too. Would it help to ship dummy man pages that just pointed to the html documentation? Can I just get

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Ceuleers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan I really hate being sent from left to right in search of Jan documentation. This includes stub man pages pointing me at html or info Jan pages. Ideally I'd want to be able to select the documentation format Jan on a system

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harlan Please see: Harlan http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/GNUAutoGenConversion Harlan http://members.ntpforum.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ForumProject3 Harlan http://members.ntpforum.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ForumProject4

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-05 Thread Hal Murray
When I wrote that I was unaware of the html page. I'm a Unix guy and I generally don't even consider looking for html docs - I am used to (and expect) man pages. Me too. Would it help to ship dummy man pages that just pointed to the html documentation? -- These are my opinions, not

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2007-12-13 Thread David L. Mills
Harlan, I don't want to pick a fight on this, but you told me offline that the html2man utility was imperfect and not appropriate to convert bulk NTP html pages to man pages. So, why is that utlity still in the distribution? It may yet be useful in many cases, but there needs to be a

[ntp:questions] Distribution security

2007-12-03 Thread David L. Mills
Folks, Recently there have been several occasions where folks complained about one thing or another in the documentation, in particular when not using the official documentation via the web. The NTP maintainers and I have a very strict security policy for the NTP products maintained at U

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2007-12-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David L. Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David In fact, all snapshots, releases, bugzilla, repositories, NTP home David page and NTP project site physically reside at U Delaware. Only the David documents maintained by the NTP Support Project are physically David