Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:27:00 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: dhenscheid@cox.net Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Possible missing word in the FreeBSD handbook online. Message-ID: <4910A204.2000008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081104122949.9EZYZ.192760.imail@fed1rmwml25> References: <20081104122949.9EZYZ.192760.imail@fed1rmwml25>
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dhenscheid@cox.net wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > First off: > I have been pouring through the FreeBSD Handbook lately, and I believe there may be a missing word in one of the sections. On this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/tcpwrappers.html > > one of the sentences in the first paragraph reads: > > "While a firewall has a wide variety of uses, there are some things that a firewall not handle such as sending text back to the connection originator." > > The sentence is a little confusing in the main sentence. "... there are some things that a firewall <<not>> handle..." Is this supposed to be "cannot", "should not", "will not", etc? > > You are right, I just fixed it and it will appear in the online version of the Handbook in the next 24 hours. Thanks for submitting this! > Second off: > Thank you very much for providing this handbook. It's been an invaluable tool for me and learning how FreeBSD works. It is well formatted, concise, and very easy to follow. I find the examples easy to understand and can set up FreeBSD on my laptop with minimal problems. > > Rest assured we enjoy working on the documentation as much as you enjoy reading it! Thanks, manolis@
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