cvs commit: www/en docs.sgml

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Sun Aug 31 02:55:37 PDT 2003


On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 10:36:25AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:23:55AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:13:39PM -0700, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> > > brueffer    2003/08/30 16:13:39 PDT
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     en                   docs.sgml 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add freebsdhowtos.com to the list of additional resources
> > 
> > Hmmm I'm not sure this one is a good idea:
> > 
> > - A lot of outdated docs
> > - Many wrong/bad infos:
> > 
> > just look at the "Getting the kernel source via cvs" article:
> > 
> > when they say that CVS comes with the cvsup-bin package ...
> > 
> > In "How to run a progam as root while you're not root":
> > 
> > they give the chmod 755/+s solution!!!  Even if they add a warning, it
> > is not really serious when sudo and other more secure solutions are
> > available around.
> > 
> > So I'm not really sure that site is a good resource for our users.
> 
> I agree.
> 

Now that I have looked at it more closely, I agree too.  I remembered
following some of the howtos two year ago and assumed they were still
up to date :/

- Christian

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