[PLUG] SSH Server.

[Anthony Schlemmer]

The sad thing is that when someone needs help for the most common 
configuration items for Linux/Unix like: email, FTP, SSH, DNS there are 
a number of websites with good information available online. I went 
though this with OpenBSD when I needed to figure out how to setup DNS 
and sendmail and a Google search with the proper keywords yielded 
quickly yielded pages with all of the information I needed.

Certainly it's fine to spell out the solution step-by-step but I would 
hope that most people trying to do system configuration for the various 
Unix services might want to learn something in the process and not be 
above RTFM replies that include relevant man pages and/or URLs.

Of course we've all seen idiotic responses from some people that give 
the stock "RTFM" response with no relevant resources sited which is 
just a waste of bits IMHO.

Tony

On Friday 22 November 2002 10:24 am, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 13:30, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 November 2002 13:08, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > Do you know about the "man" command?  I assume that by now you
> > > do... <snip useless blah blah>
> >
> > Use Linux, and reap the pleasures of getting yelled at and
> > insulted. Hey, there's a recruiting pitch. K. Prasad, I hope you
> > found the useful responses in this thread.
>
> I hate it when people scream about rudeness and meanness when
> somebody tries to explain how to find an answer to a question instead
> of just spewing forth the answer to the question.
>
> This is far too common in the computing world.  People have a
> question, they ask it, and then they get an answer, hand-holding them
> through the whole thing.  They then learn absolutely nothing that
> could help them in their next project (like... say... an NNTP
> server?)... and when the next obsticle appears, they're dependent
> upon free tech support to solve it.
>
> If, instead of being told exactly what to do, they're told where to
> look for the answer to their question... chances are they'll look
> there the next time and won't have to ask for help.  Eventually
> they'll get to the point where they can start helping other people
> with their questions.
>
> But no, Carla, this is the rude way to do things, huh?
>
> Give a man a fish and he is fed for a day.  Teach a man to fish and
> he is never hungry again.
>
> If you were saying Karl was being rude in the specific language used
> - I didn't read it as being rude at all.  You should have learned by
> now that Internet communications are prone to being mis-interpreted -
> we don't have tone or body language to help set the mood.  That makes
> it somewhat stupid to jump on somebody in things like this - where it
> could be questionable what tone the poster was posting in.
>
> Rob

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Anthony Schlemmer
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