complete ubuntu manual

[Tom H]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I see redhat has the following manual. I'm wondering if ubuntu has a
>>> similar manual like it. I found a wiki
>>> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid. But it seems that it is not
>>> complete as it doesn't include, for example, autofs.
>>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-mount.html
>>
>> This is a very old RHL 7.3 url but it is probably still valid (I
>> didn't read it). The current RHEL 5.5 url for autofs is
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-nfs-client-config-autofs.html
>
> Just to make my OP clear. I didn't say RHL 7.3 is the current one. I'm
> just saying Ubuntu manual is incomplete.

No comment


>> The Ubuntu autofs page is
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
>>
>> And the Ubuntu server guide is
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/
>> but it doesn't include an autofs section, AFAICT.
>
> This again demonstrates that ubuntu manual is not complete.

Completeness is relative although I have said before that, in general,
Ubuntu documentation is weaker/less well-organized than that of other
distributions.

Regarding autofs in particular, the serverguide writers may have
decided that it wasn't relevant and/or that the help.ubuntu.com page
was sufficient. For example, Fedora's documentation also skips autofs:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html-single/Managing_Confined_Services/index.html