Hi Don, Short reply. It seems that the request for feedback got people overwhelmed... or perhaps it's just me who's overwhelmed:). Anyways, I will continue writing on the document. As for the question about helping out.... for typos etc, it would be extremely appreciated if you download the Docbook SGML source and tar -xzvf the package. After that, make a copy of the source dir into ipsysctl-tutorial.old. Do all the changes in the original ipsysctl-tutorial directory, and when you feel you are done, go back to the base directory and do something like this: diff -ur --exclude=CVS ipsysctl-tutorial.old ipsysctl-tutorial > file.diff This should create a blah.diff file containing all the differences in unified diff format. Send that one over to me, and I should have everything that I need. When it comes to larger changes (e.g., a missing admonition, large sections of text, or things that you don't want to do yourself), you may either do as above and I will see what you think is wrong and can take a look at it myself... Or you could just send a brief description of the problem and proposed changes, and I will look at it:) I hope this explains how you may help. I will add something about this to the tutorial or somewhere there as well. Thanks for notifying about this! //Oskar On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Don Gould wrote: > > Is this document worth the effort? > > YES (caps intended!) > > > Is this anything along the lines what you have wished for? > > Getting closer! > > > Is there anything missing (yes, tons that I know of=))? > > Yes, I couldn't find instructions on how to help you with the document. :) > > > Find any bugs or errors on my part? > > I have started reading it and already found some very minor errors > (typo's) but didn't know how best to take part. > > Please let me know how I can be of assistance. > > > I will be totally honest, this document probably took me several > > hundreds of hours getting this far, since I had to pretty much read up > > on every single variable in the source code. Considering that I am a > > fairly bad coder, this took some considerable part of the time:). I am > > pretty damn certain that this has led to hundreds of errors, and people > > will probably want to kill me for some of them. > > If I'm understanding what I've already read in the first 10 pages > correctly then it has already been of more value to me than you can hope > to imagine in this life time! :) > > Cheers DiG > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > -- ---- Oskar Andreasson http://www.frozentux.net http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net mailto:blueflux@koffein.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
