On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:58 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
I used the info in info console.perms and from several other sources
to teach me how to write a file that changes /dev/ttyS0 ownership
from root to me when I am on the console. As it happens this is the
devise in Fedora that lets you use a serial port which in windows
talk is Com1.
The info console.perms is written by Michael K. Johnson
<johnsonm redhat com> and I suspect he wrote the software. Alas what
he wrote is real bad. It tells him what it does but it was way over
my head. After reading a lot of other things I figured out how to
use this software and it did work. But it took a whole day.
I would like to re-write this console-perm man page from the pov
of a user rather than the writer of the code. This I can do from
what I did to make the serial port work.
Is this something we do?
I think any quality judgment of that man page is a really subjective
measurement. For instance, I find it pretty darn informative, but if
you asked me ten years ago, I'd probably argue with myself. The man
pages use a specific style and tone that is particular to console users
(power users, administrators, and developers), and the information they
convey uses terminology that is somewhat consistent across the whole
set. I have a feeling that trying to change that tone for one
particular man page may not be a worthwhile effort.
What I'd suggest, instead, is that you do one of the following:
1. (A little harder, but allows you to participate in this project:)
Follow the steps at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Join to
join Fedora get wiki access, and make a tutorial page that explains this
procedure in common user language. We can look at using that in future
guides as appropriate.
2. (Easier:) Get yourself a weblog account at Wordpress.org or any of
the other free blogging sites, and you can post advice on what you
discover there, and share it with the world.
Heck, you could do both if you wanted.