docs/84094: [PATCH] Serial Communication Doc Error

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR docs/84094; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org,
 "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell at offmyserver.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/84094: [PATCH] Serial Communication Doc Error
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:37:46 -0400

 On Monday 25 July 2005 04:57 pm, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
 > >Description:
 >
 > 	The serial communications chapter of the handbook implies that setting up
 > boot messages to be output on the serial console can be quickly achieved by
 > inserting
 >
 > 	set console="comconsole"
 >
 > 	into /boot/loader.conf
 >
 > 	This is incorrect and will trigger a syntax error. Instead, the same line
 > should be inserted into /boot/loader.rc _or_ the ``set'' part should be
 > removed to give the equivilant for loader.conf(5)
 >
 > 	The attached patches contain a choice of corrections; I suppose it is up
 > to the doc team to decide which is more applicable. I would personally
 > prefer the loader.conf(5) one (the second patch) since changing loader.rc
 > generally seems to me to be a bad idea.
 
 Agreed.  This sort of thing belongs in loader.conf.
 
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