On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:46 -0800, tuxxer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:17 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > http://members.cox.net/tuxxer/ch-chapter1.html > > > > The parts about using gpg or md5 requires more > > explanation. If you are explaning it in a later part > > refer to that > A detailed discussion of these utilities doesn't fall within the scope > of this document. However, a glossing of how to create a gpg keypair, > and how to check files with both gpg and md5sum will be added shortly. You can use my page on the fedoraproject.org wiki as a jumping off point to save some time if you wish: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys > > http://members.cox.net/tuxxer/services-gui.html > > > > > > " The services that you can *safely* disable will > > depend upon the role of your system." > > > > if you need to emphasise on safely use italics or what > > the style guide recommends. > > > > " > > yum - Enable daily run of yum, a program updater. > > (This will depend on your environment.)" > > > > since every service is pretty much dependant on the > > role of the system special emphasis for the yum deamon > > is unnecessary > > True. However, I specifically said this for yum because I can think of > environments in which the user would NOT want updates to be run every > night automatically. Perhaps I can make a comment here that would be a > little more clear to that end. Interestingly, a related thread came up on fedora-legacy-list just recently. Some people running automatic updates on production Fedora servers -- I know, I know... not a good idea! -- were recently inconvenienced by a mysql-server upgrade that killed the service without a proper restart. (Sorry, I don't remember the exact details.) I wouldn't put anything about this in your guide; I merely thought your comment was definitely on target. quoth Rahul: > > http://members.cox.net/tuxxer/userconfig-cli.html > > > > " Below is a list of user accounts that most Fedora > > Core users will want to disable." > > > > The above wording suggests that most users of Fedora > > do not run the services that follows it. It would be > > better to say something like this > > > > "The following are some of the services that you might > > want to disable in the system depending on the your > > requirements" Or, in a more stylistically pleasing manner: ;-) "Depending on your system requirements, you may want to disable some of the following services: ..." -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
