[horde] Re: Documentation reccomendations

[doug moore]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent J. Nordquist [mailto:bjn@horde.org]
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Subject: [horde] Re: Documentation reccomendations


[Dragging this over to <doc@lists.horde.org>...]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, doug moore <lordscarlet@idledreams.net> wrote:

>> The documentation i used was horde/docs/INSTALL, so this is in reference
to
>> that and with the assumption of a default redhat instlal, which is what
the
>> INSTALL documentation uses:

>Thanks for your notes!  Well, ugh, in the 2.2.x branch we've kept the
>INSTALL docs up-to-date pretty well, but they've been languishing in
>HEAD... I'm surprised you only found 4.

these are the 4 i remember :)

>> redhat does not seem to symlink a /init.d

>RH 6.x doesn't, so that's one of the standard things I do as I install an
>RH 6.x system.  In RH 7.x they make the sym. link during install.

i have RH 7.0 and no symlink.. i did install over 6.x if that could cause it
to happen?


>> /** 4
>> Also, i THINK you have to do:
>>
>> mysqladmin [ -h <host> ] -u hordemgr -p password <new-password>
>>
>> after creating hordemgr

>That's covered by this step:
>
>    mysql> replace into user ( host, user, password )
>        values ('localhost', 'hordemgr', password('hordepass'));
>
>as long as you flush privileges that does the trick.

hmm.. i did that and couldnt' seem to access it (even from command line:
mysql -u hordemgr -p) but i could be wrong.. that's why it says "i THINK"
because it was during my hectic attempts to try and get the damn thing
working :)
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doug moore
www.idledreams.net / www.idledreams.com / AIM: lordScar



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Subject: Re: [doc] Re: Documentation reccomendations

Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> Thanks for your notes!  Well, ugh, in the 2.2.x branch we've kept the
> INSTALL docs up-to-date pretty well, but they've been languishing in
> HEAD... I'm surprised you only found 4.

Yeah... the other question is, are we going to keep INSTALL as comprehensive as 
it's currently trying to be? RedHat instructions are all well and good, but...

> At some point these will need to get rewritten, and we'll have to decide
> whether to move to DocBook.  (If so, I'm sure we'll still want to generate
> plain-old text format as one of the outputs.)  But DocBook is so nice!

Docbook would be cool. =)

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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