From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 20: 6:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B680537B419 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:06:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2F44Wa93845; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:04:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roo) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:04:32 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger To: "jamgill@uu.net" Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSDQ Subject: Re: man pages to hmtl Message-ID: <20020314200432.A93644@rain.macguire.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jamgill@UU.NET on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:36:35PM -0500 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc 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 * jamgill@uu.net (jamgill@UU.NET) [020314 18:40]: > > Yes. It is a CGI script which will run on a webserver. You can download > the code, it's the top FAQ about the manpages in fact: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi/faq.html > > 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 ;-) > > --gill 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. -- Benjamin Krueger "From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message