- Hi Jeremy, Great news ! I think that's a very nice idea. Anyway, Good Luck for yours books ! On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:23:32AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I published two books for the NetBSD System Manager's Manual. Volume 1 > is ac(8) through multiboot(8) and Volume 2 is named(8) through zpool(8). > > It doesn't include the out-of-date, mostly unmaintained, and somewhat > irrelevant system installation and administration documentation which > was also historically bundled in the SMM: System Management Documents 1 > (installing and operating 4.4BSD) through 19 (perl). Note that NetBSD's > src/share/doc/smm only has seven of these 19 documents. > > The books do include some section 1 manuals (that I felt should be in > the system maintenance procedures and commands section 8): > > altqstat.1 atf-cleanup.1 atf-format.1 bpm.1 daicctl.1 dtmfdecode.1 > ipftest.1 ipresend.1 ipsend.1 iptest.1 kimpersonate.1 lptest.1 mopchk.1 > mopcopy.1 mopprobe.1 moptrace.1 omshell.1 pkg_add.1 pkg_admin.1 > pkg_create.1 pkg_delete.1 pkg_info.1 postalias.1 postcat.1 postconf.1 > postdrop.1 postfix.1 postkick.1 postlock.1 postlog.1 postmap.1 > postmulti.1 postqueue.1 postsuper.1 screenblank.1 sendmail.1 sntp.1 > srtconfig.1 sup.1 > (What do you think about moving any of these to section 8?) > > The 1994 SMM is over 600 pages long, but my new book is two volumes > totalling over 1500 pages. I include a very long permuted index (keyword > in context) and over a hundred different licenses. > > Some details and photos are here: > http://www.reedmedia.net/books/netbsd-manuals/ > http://www.reedmedia.net/books/netbsd-manuals/photos.html > > I have set this up as a multi-volume set at a 20% discount but I am > still waiting for Amazon or other book stores to properly list it as a > set (one order gets two books). > > Since the set is so long, I don't expect I will ever do books for the > other sections unless there was real interest. -- -- Ulrich Etile, <http://www.netbsd-france.org> -- -- "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. -- We do what we do because we love Unix." De Raadt
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