Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ technical software manual?

[Ian Fantom <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Lasman wrote:

> In the booklet that comes with my Restore CDs, it says "WARNING: The
> Cobalt OS Restore CD completely ereases the disk drive of the Cobalt
> product before restoring it to a factory-fresh state."  That's pretty
> definitive as I see it <smile>.

Ah! That booklet must be with my colocator! Which is fair enough in that
he does the restoring. But all that sort of info (the 'what' rather than
'how') needs to be with the owner of the RaQ as well. That could explain
some other emails in this list! (I'll see if I can get a duplicate from
Cobalt.)

> > or that for .htaccess to
> > work you have to set 'AuthPAM_Enabled off', ...

> No, though it's obscure, it's actually it's a bit of common sense and a
> thorough reading up on how PAM works....

I'd never heard of PAM, and since it's Apache we're configuring, I
searched in the Apache documentation, not the Linux, and didn't find
anything. If I had heard of it, I presumably still wouldn't have known
it was installed on the RaQ3.

> I don't expect Cobalt to document anything about their linux, because
> they sell their boxes as appliances.  When they do document something
> I'm pleasantly surprised.

Fair enough. It's really a case of knowing specifically about the RaQ
implementation (though any differences between Linux and general Unix
implementations that affect the RaQ's would be useful too).

> 
> > Hence this list is so useful, but I can't help thinking that a technical
> > manual would save a lot of questions!
> 
> I think it would and I know it would be a great project.  Unfortunately
> I don't have the time right now (unless someone wants to give me a nice
> advance <smile>.

Didn't think you would -;(.

Just throwing the idea open might encourage someone though. Possibly
someone like me who's going through the problems and making some sort of
note as he goes along ... but I'm not actually offering!

Regards,

Ian.

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