Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:58 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
I used the info in info console.perms and from several other sources
to teach me how to write a file that changes /dev/ttyS0 ownership from
root to me when I am on the console. As it happens this is the devise in
Fedora that lets you use a serial port which in windows talk is Com1.
The info console.perms is written by Michael K. Johnson
<johnsonm@xxxxxxxxxx> and I suspect he wrote the software. Alas what he
wrote is real bad. It tells him what it does but it was way over my
head. After reading a lot of other things I figured out how to use this
software and it did work. But it took a whole day.
I would like to re-write this console-perm man page from the pov of
a user rather than the writer of the code. This I can do from what I did
to make the serial port work.
Is this something we do?
I think any quality judgment of that man page is a really subjective
measurement. For instance, I find it pretty darn informative, but if
you asked me ten years ago, I'd probably argue with myself. The man
pages use a specific style and tone that is particular to console users
(power users, administrators, and developers), and the information they
convey uses terminology that is somewhat consistent across the whole
set. I have a feeling that trying to change that tone for one
particular man page may not be a worthwhile effort.
What I'd suggest, instead, is that you do one of the following:
1. (A little harder, but allows you to participate in this project:)
Follow the steps at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Join to
join Fedora get wiki access, and make a tutorial page that explains this
procedure in common user language. We can look at using that in future
guides as appropriate.
2. (Easier:) Get yourself a weblog account at Wordpress.org or any of
the other free blogging sites, and you can post advice on what you
discover there, and share it with the world.
Heck, you could do both if you wanted.
I really do not need to be a member of the Fedora Documentation
Project to write a blog on console.perms or anything else. The problem
with a blog is finding it. What I wanted was the person who uses "man
console.perms" should see an example of what is done. What exists
assumes a good working knowledge of bash and, as you say is a power user.
I'm not a power user. But I had a need to use this tool. I was happy
it had a man page. I was unhappy it didn't tell me how to use it. It
took Google and just rooting around to find out how the 50 examples works.
If you need to be a power user to be on this Project, then I better
quit.
Karl
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