Re: [hobbit] xymon issue need help

[Jerald Sheets <questy (at) gmail.com>]

There's also the obvious language thing, too.

I usually wait until the second "just hand it to me" before I let someone
have it.  :)

Honestly, I'm not all that much better, but I like to give someone a
fighting chance before I decide to execute a drive-by RTFM.  :)


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Jerald M. Sheets jr.




On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Xymon User in Richmond <
hobbit (at) epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:

> On Thu, February 25, 2010 14:20, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > Yeah, we should endeavor to be helpful to newcomers (although not
> > spoon-feed them) whenever they come by.
> >
> > We could have answers like that on darned near any Linux forum out there,
> >  but we should at least try and be helpful.
> >
> > How about some sites?  How about the wiki which specifically covers
> > Solaris installations?
> >
> >
> > Here's some Solaris goo:
> >
> >
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_
> > Guide#Solaris_11.2F06_U3_on_Sun_hardware
> >
> >
> >
> > And some helpful sites:
> >
> > Xymon <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit>
> > Deadcat <http://www.deadcat.net/> MRTG
> > <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-mrtg.html> Hobbit Tips and
> > Tricks<http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html> Man Pages
> > <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man-index.html> Xymonton
> > <http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php> Windows Goodness
> > <http://system.keilir.net/windows.html> Hobbiton
> > <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/>
> >
> > Come on...   we're better than that.
> >
>
> In Josh's defense, it looked like a spoon-feed request.  He's generally
> pretty helpful to noobs who ask questions with any thought behind them.
> My inclination was to refer the OP to:
> http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> I also harked back to another mailing list, in a previous century, and the
> question "How do I configure the best firewall?".  The goofery and
> ridicule went on for days, including pictures of wirecutters.
>
> You're probably a better person than I am.
>
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