There's also the obvious language thing, too.
I usually wait until the second "just hand it to me" before I let someone have it. :)
Honestly, I'm not all that much better, but I like to give someone a fighting chance before I decide to execute a drive-by RTFM. :)
Jerald M. Sheets jr.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Xymon User in Richmond < hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
On Thu, February 25, 2010 14:20, Jerald Sheets wrote:
Yeah, we should endeavor to be helpful to newcomers (although not spoon-feed them) whenever they come by.
We could have answers like that on darned near any Linux forum out there, but we should at least try and be helpful.
How about some sites? How about the wiki which specifically covers Solaris installations?
Here's some Solaris goo:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_
Guide#Solaris_11.2F06_U3_on_Sun_hardware
And some helpful sites:
Xymon <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit> Deadcat <http://www.deadcat.net/> MRTG <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-mrtg.html> Hobbit Tips and Tricks<http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html> Man Pages <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man-index.html> Xymonton <http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php> Windows Goodness <http://system.keilir.net/windows.html> Hobbiton <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/>
Come on... we're better than that.
In Josh's defense, it looked like a spoon-feed request. He's generally pretty helpful to noobs who ask questions with any thought behind them. My inclination was to refer the OP to: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I also harked back to another mailing list, in a previous century, and the question "How do I configure the best firewall?". The goofery and ridicule went on for days, including pictures of wirecutters.
You're probably a better person than I am.
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