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Bruce A. Mah
b22b1ecb4a Fix typo: s/Konqeuror/Konqueror/ 
PR:		31959
Submitted by:	Steven Huwig <sjh13@po.cwru.edu>
 2001-11-13 23:57:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7e6cb3420d Add "why did my 3C509 stop working" FAQ. From the PR, with a markup 
fix for a missing closing quote.

PR:		31784
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 21:37:09 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7abba1b857 Document "port" tag. From the PR, but with the text moved to a more 
suitable section (DocBook vs. HTML section) and with an explanatory
note that this element is a FreeBSD extension to DocBook.

PR:		31934
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-13 18:07:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
edf26dccd4 Document the "errorname" tag. 
PR:		31776
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 08:14:49 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
2ef678d4ab Add my PGP/GPG key, which got signed by some people at BSDCon EU. 2001-11-13 06:20:21 +00:00
John Polstra
943834e78f Add cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org. 2001-11-13 04:55:13 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9a59b793ed Mention the risks of umount -f. 
PR:		31883
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 03:32:27 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
674bece4ac Fix breakage (<listitem> -> </listitem>). 2001-11-12 00:38:40 +00:00
Tom Hukins
64ac5cb25a Fix typo 
PR:		docs/31909
Submitted by:	Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com>
 2001-11-11 21:30:04 +00:00
Anders Nordby
eb1089deec Really add myself to the developers section. 
Pointed out by:	dd
Pointy hat to:	me

Approved by:	will
 2001-11-11 15:12:05 +00:00
Anders Nordby
fd584447b3 Add my PGP key. 
Approved by:	will
 2001-11-11 14:48:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7a04c68be7 Update shells description. 
While I'm here delete some not-quite-as-applicable-as-it-once-was
text about shells in ports having "much more power".

PR:		31884
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 19:56:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9b9c77a1ff Login names are not "still" restricted to 8 characters, unless one is 
running 2.2.X or earlier.

PR:		31881
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:44:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ac67398a26 Update ld.so FAQ. From PR with one markup change. 
PR:		31878
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:41:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
dfbdd47336 Revise smbfs FAQ, eliminating the last XXX in the FAQ. 
From the PR with a minor markup change.

PR:		31880
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:08:52 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f241b59ab4 Add some new text regarding portupgrade to the "upgrading ports" 
FAQ, and tweak existing text slightly.

This change comes from the PR with one markup modification and one
rewording.

PR:		31879
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 02:10:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
175030aed2 Use &os.numports; instead of a hardcoded (out-of-date) constant. 
PR:		31875
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 01:48:30 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6097877b7b Handbook entry referred to describes a tool, it is not the tool itself. 
PR:		31882
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 01:33:00 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
2de2350a12 Tell people where to find books on OS internals (in other words, a 
link to the Handbook's excellent Bibliography).

PR:		31785
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 16:34:18 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
1bac33c865 Add an FAQ entry about why du and df may disagree on how much space is 
free.

PR:		31821
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 16:25:19 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
68298cf09a Fill paragraph. 2001-11-07 15:10:39 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
15a693d7a1 Reword run-on sentence. 
PR:		31808
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-07 15:09:37 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
cd9c547880 Remove extra word. 
PR:		31805
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-07 14:35:25 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
71add6ef61 Clarify that PAO is relevant for <= 3.x only. 
PR:		31780
Submitted by:	<mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 13:47:59 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
d2b4fcb33b src-eBones and src-secure aren't necessary to build a release; src-all 
is sufficient.

PR:		31777
Submitted by:	Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
 2001-11-07 13:45:06 +00:00
Anders Nordby
aae63bc158 Remove myself from additional contributors section, add to developers section. 
Approved by:	will
 2001-11-06 22:33:51 +00:00
Chern Lee
0ba13f481e Use "raising" and "lowering" the signal over "asserting" and 
"disasserting" (not a word).

Suggested by: nik
 2001-11-05 19:25:52 +00:00
Chern Lee
fac4584d62 Reverse four instances in previous spelling-fix commit: 
* out takes -> outtakes
 * blinking lights -> Blinkenlights
 * hard coding -> hardcoding
 * place holder -> place holder

Pointed out by: des
 2001-11-05 19:13:01 +00:00
Anton Berezin
a203f41404 Update Vadim Belman's E-mail address. 2001-11-05 13:37:43 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
32918c67aa Update Daniel Hagan's email entry. 
Submitted by:	Daniel Hagan <dhagan@acm.vt.edu>
 2001-11-05 08:59:00 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6bf03d1f93 Provide instructions for upgrading 3.X -> 4.X from source. 
PR:		docs/31695
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-05 08:41:26 +00:00
Murray Stokely
2ede66105d Don't claim that our FTP site will allow compressed/tarred grabbing of 
whole directory trees.  Only claim that some of our FTP mirrors MAY
support this functionality.

PR:		docs/31667
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-05 07:58:55 +00:00
Murray Stokely
c7313cc357 Update the link to the 'cvsupit' package. Also change the language to 
show that cvsupit helps customize the supfile and cvsup behavior.

PR:		docs/31667
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, and
		mh@cs.tu-berlin.de
 2001-11-05 07:50:32 +00:00
Murray Stokely
f31a95a427 Get our story straight about the "most recommended" way to obtain 
the source for FreeBSD (remove contradicting statements).
Consistently recommend CVSup but continue to mention the FTP and CTM
options.

PR:		docs/31663
Submitted by:	Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
 2001-11-05 07:35:33 +00:00
Murray Stokely
b98392cee3 By default, emacs doesn't set tab fillers and page width correctly for 
the docproj materials.  This adds a sample .emacs entry to set this
properly.

PR:		docs/31707
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, and
		keramida
 2001-11-05 07:13:36 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
599513ed1c Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts [so add 
an FAQ about it].

PR:		31480
Submitted by:	Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
 2001-11-04 23:45:30 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
b3491962c1 Add an answer for: "Is there a cryptographic filesystem for FreeBSD?" 2001-11-04 22:21:00 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
7d07c8a91d Add entry for __FreeBSD_version 440002 2001-11-04 18:41:14 +00:00
Christian Weisgerber
a09df91163 Add myself to Developers section and remove from Contributors. 
Approved by:	trevor
 2001-11-03 14:08:51 +00:00
Andrew R. Reiter
bc5d275135 - Add my name to the contributors list since I'm a new committer. 
Reviewed by:	jhb (my mentor)
Approved by:	jhb ("  ")
 2001-11-02 19:05:46 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
ebd1c984cb Add Ashley Penney for his work on reducing the amount of PRs. 2001-11-02 18:21:15 +00:00
MANTANI Nobutaka
bfc523749d - add an entity for myself 
- remove myself from the additional contributors section and add myself
  to the developers section

Reviewed by:	knu (my mentor)
 2001-11-02 12:41:47 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
a5e235d65a Update David Wolfskill's email address. 2001-11-02 09:07:37 +00:00
Akinori MUSHA
ad02289dae Add my public key. 2001-11-01 19:40:54 +00:00
Anton Berezin
3ddade63dd List Vladimir Savichev <vlad@ariel.phys.wesleyan.edu> as an additional 
contributor for his updates to math/gsl port.
 2001-11-01 09:21:19 +00:00
Chern Lee
79765ea71e Update mirror info for Iceland. 
Submitted by: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
 2001-11-01 01:38:09 +00:00
Chern Lee
0afb434e94 Spelling Fixes: 
* particuarly -> particularly
 * placeholder -> place holder
 * conversly -> conversely
 * preceeding -> preceding
 * configuation -> configuration
 * esentially -> essentially
 * manpage -> man page
 2001-11-01 00:27:27 +00:00
Chern Lee
fb68848e50 Spelling Fixes: 
* loadded -> loaded
 * useability -> usability
 * idealogy -> ideology
 * manpages -> man pages
 * fucntion -> function
 * useable -> usable
 * nowehere -> nowhere
 * loger -> longer
 * mechanisim -> mechanism
 * staticly -> statically
 * seperatly -> separately
 * initilized -> initialized
 * priorites -> priorities
 * funtions -> functions
 * predeclard -> predeclared
 * fuction -> function
 * signalled -> signaled
 * keypresses -> key presses
 * devicere -> device
 * programing -> programming
 * begining -> beginning
 * hardcoding -> hard coding
 * outputing -> outputting
 * siginificant -> significant

And many other "theword" -> "the word" whitespace fixes in the usb chapter.
 2001-11-01 00:22:20 +00:00
Chern Lee
cfb67e5b21 Add a $FreeBSD$ version tag. 2001-11-01 00:17:06 +00:00
Chern Lee
efda86a986 Spelling Fixes: 
* overridable -> overridden
 * documention -> documentation
 * preceeding -> preceding
 * preceeded -> preceded
 * harddisk -> hard disk
 * analagous -> analogous
 * togther -> together
 * timelines -> time lines
 * philisophy-> philosophy
 * differentation -> differentiation
 * knowledgable -> knowledgeable
 * occurence -> occurrence
 * occured -> occurred
 * greek -> Greek
 * aready -> already
 * commandline -> command line
 * latin -> Latin
 * seperate -> separate
 2001-10-31 23:47:32 +00:00