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I was thinking that an incredibly intelligent move would be to publish the man pages on the website. I was trying to get msyslog up and running and the entire documentation was on the man pages, which I could not access because the FreeBSD port did not install them and , of course, they were not available on the site. Lo and behold, I never got msyslog running. It also provides alot of information concerning the complexity of the application and helps people decide if the application will be suitable for their needs. I personally shy away from most software that doesn't offer good support on the website because that's where I go for support. Man pages are difficult to read on the CLI. The web offers a much friendlier interface.
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Dennis,

excellent idea. I'll see that I get them online today (obviously a
fairly easy task) ;) All web page updates are done on a staging system
and the content is moved nightly. So the update will not appear before
tomorrow, just in case you wonder ;)

Rainer

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> [mailto:rsyslog-bounces@lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Olvany
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:14 PM
> To: rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com
> Subject: [rsyslog] man pages
>
> I was thinking that an incredibly intelligent move would be
> to publish the man pages on the website. I was trying to get
> msyslog up and running and the entire documentation was on
> the man pages, which I could not access because the FreeBSD
> port did not install them and , of course, they were not
> available on the site. Lo and behold, I never got msyslog
> running. It also provides alot of information concerning the
> complexity of the application and helps people decide if the
> application will be suitable for their needs. I personally
> shy away from most software that doesn't offer good support
> on the website because that's where I go for support. Man
> pages are difficult to read on the CLI. The web offers a much
> friendlier interface.
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