From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 0:46:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB1937B43F for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.uu.net [153.39.88.140]) id QQmggp02288; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:45:58 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmggp03063; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:45:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2F8jfe10027; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:45:41 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:45:40 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: Benjamin Krueger Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSDQ Subject: Re: man pages to hmtl In-Reply-To: <20020314200432.A93644@rain.macguire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message