Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:45:40 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" <jamgill@UU.NET> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: man pages to hmtl Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0203150337060.9965-100000@haiti.corp.us.uu.net> In-Reply-To: <20020314200432.A93644@rain.macguire.net>
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Hey thanks! I wouldn't have thought of that, probably until it was too
late. :-)
I had thought of mounting the /usr/share/ directory via NFS. Would that
be:
* sillier
* more resource intensive
* less secure
than putting up one webserver and putting lynx on every *nix box in your
farm?
--gill
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
> * jamgill@uu.net (jamgill@UU.NET) [020314 18:40]:
> > I still don't understand why it is a mor attractive option to you to use a
> > text-based browser and convert the manpages to HTML instead of using the
> > plain old man(1) command and reading them in that format. Satisfy my
> > curiosity, tell me why ;-)
>
> You have a server farm with 500 servers. Does every single server really need
> a complete set of the manpages? (At ~30meg per server, thats 15 gig wasted
> across your farm.)
>
> You have many unix servers, but most of your staff manages things with windows
> workstations.
>
> You want to manage all documentation relevant to your servers in single
> document repository available through a web browser.
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