-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:11, Mike MacCana wrote: > Thanks for your efforts, this is good stuff. > > Now for the feedback: > > * As the doc guide mentions, totorials should be task based. Eg 'Password > File' isn't a title, 'Controlling Access to the Proxy' is. Likewise > 'Installing and Configuring Squidguard' should be replaced with 'Content > Filtering with Squidguard' 'Swatch' I've not read the doc guide, so I haven't adhered to it. I had written this fo myself amd forgot I did it, hence the old date. That was the next stage in markup. :-) > > * Try and use general Linux or RH options for services. This aids > consistency. Sure, someone could learn they need to run apachectl for > apache httpd, smbd and nmbd for Samba, etc, but there's a reason we have > initscripts. So yeah - use 'service squid restart' rather than 'squid -k' Yeah, this was done on RH9, so I have still to update to Fedora. I was going to start from scratch to check it all worked on Fedora. > > * Users should use packages to install software. If the package comes with > their distro, they should be told to use that package first. If they need > to build their own custom package, they can install a source package. If > there's no source package for an app, make one. cpna2rpm can help in your > case. It's just a case of deciding to stick with just the source, so everyone can use this guide, or give them options. > > * Pico isn't open source - but it is a great choice of editor. Pico > won't be round in Fedora much longer cause of its licensing, so try Gnu > nano an Open Source clone of pico, a great suggestion for newbies to > use. Again, this was done for RH9. > > Let's combine forces. I'm working on a Squid guide myself. Your guide > includes a lot of good technology, mine's more task based, and similiar to > Red Hat's other doco. There's a bit of overlap, and some stuff that one of > use currently does better than the other (I have transparent caching, you > have Squidguard). OK, it's worth a thought. As long as you include my name. :-) I think this should go to www.tldp.org too, as they could do with one like this. > http://www.cyber.com.au/users/mikem/fedora-docs/proxy-serving-tutorial/prox >y-serving-tutorial-en/index.html > > I'll import your content into my XML (for no reason other than mine has > lots of tables I can't be bothered writing out again) next Monday and you > can tell me if you're happy with it I'll read it and let you know. > > Cheers, > > Mike > > -- > __________________________________________________________________________ > Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I > 0419 394 504 - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://FedoraNEWS.ORG/ghenry http://www.suretecsystems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQImJgNqd7Kng8UoRAgV7AKCTF7JjmyzWq9CbmtwCZ6HEFkVCTQCeJFNt 1UKHg74u1cF7LjHsvw5Qpj8= =mi2g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
