Web Space Anyone?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 27.12.2004, 12:37 +0800 schrieb Chua Wen Kiat:
> Thanks for the input... The guide was not written for newbies but more
> for users who had tried Linux before. I think the doc team is working
> on a newbie guide.
hmm, it says unofficial ubuntu starter guide in the title.....
> Other than outdated links for applications (which i'm correcting
> it...), most of the things there seems to work for me. I'm no expert,
> but if you are kind enough to let me know what's the errors, I would
> definitely correct it
as i said in a mail before, i have some other stuff to do currently and
had only time to look at a part of it, but lots of things in there scare
me (and produce huge amounts of support on irc (i.e. ppl that have their
nvidia running fine with the two apt commands needed and then start to
fiddle around in their XF86Config-4 file (and break it with typos)
because of the next points in the guide)).
more scary is the ignoring of visudo, it would be nice if you could
correct this very fast, the sudoers file itself has a huge warning in it
not to edit it with a normal editor.
another piont is, why is there an advice to edit the grub menu.lst to
boot to single user mode ? ubuntu has already configured this in the
boot menu (without root PW) and a typo in this file will stop the system
from booting (especially if the user also followed the advice to disable
the edit function for grub on boot as described in the guides security
section)
links in /dev that are set up manually get deleted on next boot (ubuntu
uses udev, the guide should regard that), they are mentioned everywhere
in the guide....
never edit a ~/.crontab file manually, thats what the crontab -e command
is for (btw the apt update crontab entry will not work the described
example)
apache2 doesnt set the php4 options in apache2.conf, they get set up
automatically by installing libapache2-mod-php4
in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.conf, which is read by apache2 on
startup.
"How to install MYSQL Database Server is very confusing"... i need to
give a root pw ? so i do need to enable the root user for a working
mysql ? 
there a little advice that this is an mysql and not a system pw would be
nice.
in "How to use Ubuntu Installation CD, to gain root user access" says in
point 3: follow the instructions on screen till "Partition disks".... so
do i continue with point 4 after i wiped out my disk with the
partitioner or before ? (please put a HUGE warning there ....)

i could go on here, but as i said i'm a bit busy currently....
i really appreciate the effort you put into this but it would be nice if
you could have some contact to the doc team or devs for review.
also splitting it up in a starter/advanced section would be great.
...broken (misconfigured) systems eat a lot of time in irc support....

ciao
	oli

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