Possible missing word in the FreeBSD handbook online.
Manolis Kiagias
sonic2000gr at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 19:27:12 UTC 2008
dhenscheid at cox.net wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> First off:
> I have been pouring through the FreeBSD Handbook lately, and I believe there may be a missing word in one of the sections. On this page:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/tcpwrappers.html
>
> one of the sentences in the first paragraph reads:
>
> "While a firewall has a wide variety of uses, there are some things that a firewall not handle such as sending text back to the connection originator."
>
> The sentence is a little confusing in the main sentence. "... there are some things that a firewall <<not>> handle..." Is this supposed to be "cannot", "should not", "will not", etc?
>
>
You are right, I just fixed it and it will appear in the online version
of the Handbook in the next 24 hours. Thanks for submitting this!
> Second off:
> Thank you very much for providing this handbook. It's been an invaluable tool for me and learning how FreeBSD works. It is well formatted, concise, and very easy to follow. I find the examples easy to understand and can set up FreeBSD on my laptop with minimal problems.
>
>
Rest assured we enjoy working on the documentation as much as you enjoy
reading it!
Thanks,
manolis@
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