On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 07:26:08PM +0200, poma wrote:
> largely because there's no explicit documentation on what
the default
> configuration is on install. You have to read the config files and
> figure it out from the man pages, which suffer from the same fault as
> many such pages, i.e. they are written for people who already know how
> it all works and just need a reminder. One example: the term 'jail' is
> used without ever being defined, and in a way inconsistent with other
> uses in Linux such as 'root jail'.
> In the end I just had to add a simple jail.local file, but it took a
> while to discover that.
> Denyhosts was much easier IIRC.
Once you're done, make the instructions in the form of a examples,
put it in a patch and send upstream. If upstream doesn't pull propose
to downstream. If downstream doesn't pull, make a note here on the
list.
Yeah, this would be really helpful. Or even a blog post, or something
on Ask Fedora or Unix & Linux Stackexchange. Another suggestion would
be to file a Fedora bug to include a simple "README.fedora" explaining
the default config as shipped + a simple quickstart.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader