README: Current Fedora Core 2 Problems & Solutions/Helpful Links

[jludwig]

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:43, Craig White wrote:
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> > </rant>
> -----
> interesting rant
> 
> now mine
> 
> <rant>
> People who steal other threads
> 
> People who ask questions that provide absolutely no details about the
> hardware they are using (video card) even though it would appear that
> the hardware configuration is the problem.
> 
> People that give no indication of the logs that they have looked at for
> clues to their problems (/var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/dmesg)
> 
> People thoroughly unfamiliar with
> <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
> 
> </rant>
> 
> Craig
I agree -- but IMHO -- Many times these people are newbies and don't
know to send this information. Consider the MScat converts -- How much
data does Mscat give the user to deal with a problem?

Possibly a netique message at sign-up to relay this information.

I suspect that many newbies are not even aware of the /var/log files
much less how to get debug information.
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>