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: ..."