On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:53 +0000, Joao Paulo Pires wrote: > Man pages - Each time I try get some help from man pages I get > disappointed. Wich is the proper way to learn some more from console? > If I call --help I just get confused. Am I dummy? I think the first > way to learn should be the man pages. I can imagine this is a basic > need for a newbie. TIA, Joao. Please don't post HTML to this list. There are a lot of people on this list who use mail readers which don't support HTML. In answer to your question, I usually do a Google search for examples. Let's say I want to use Samba, and the man pages aren't helpful. I would do a Google search and enter the words "samba" and "example" in the search field. The very first hit would bring up John Terpstra's excellent web page titled "Samba-3 by Example." If I was interested in, say, Postfix, I would Google for "postfix" and "example." Again, the very first hit is "Postfix Standard Configuration Examples" on the Postfix web site. A search on "apache" and "example" also brings up a bunch of examples of how to solve specific problems. I can also get more granular. Let's say I specifically want to know how to set up greylisting on Sendmail as a milter. My search terms would be "greylist," "sendmail," "milter," and "example." The very first hit is an article by Emmanuel Dreyfus, the author of milter-greylist, titled "Spam Filtering with Sendmail Milters and Greylisting." So really, the first answer is probably Google, not the man page. Once you are familiar with the essentials of a program, you would go back and reference the man pages for the finer points. Hope this is helpful, Thomas
