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apt-get install moge/stable fuga/stable -y

There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory. I forgot the other two.

> So metalab people WILL accept new HOWTO's or HOWTO translations
> even if the author stubbornly REFUSES to switch to DocBook?

IMO, "yes". The existing tools work just fine and can generate all
acceptable formats/variants. The DTD is acceptable albeit sparse.
I think it would be ridiculous to turn away new or updated content
just because the SGML is not DocBook.

I've noticed that the ADSM-backup mini how-to is very outdated. Much has happened since it was last updated over three years ago and I would be very interested in helping out with updating/rewriting it.

Out of curiosity, has anyone started on iptables information? For the new 2.4 series kernel? I recently fought a large battle against iptables, and am willing to contribute, or if no one has started, to write.

We already agreed to merge all the HOWTOs in a single dir, but we are not doing anything to avoid disturbing the mirrors.

It is a science fiction deal with TUX being a Nuclear mutated Penguin/Terminator/Predator and includes such characters as "Chuck" (the BSD deveil.)

I just wanted to notify whoever was incharge of the Linux Documentation Project that I was starting a PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - Howto. Which would cover Installing from scratch, Configuring it, etc.. I have recieved permission from the Linux-Pam maintainer (Andrew Morgan morgan@transmeta.com ) on this.

• Jade
• the Norman Walsh StyleSheets (which I believe come with a copy of the DTD)

Yes, I think that's correct, although it does leave a few extra goodies out. If you just want to write and parse SGML, then you don't even need that much, just the DTD, and parts of Jade. If you want to create HTML or other output, then you need the stylesheets.

(http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/)

• task-sgml - SGML and XML authoring and editing
• sgml-base - utilities to maintain the SGML catalog file
• sgml-data - common SGML DTDs and entities
• debiandoc-sgml - DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
• debiandoc-sgml-doc - documentation for DebianDoc-SGML
• perlsgml - tools to build and analyse SGML document type definitions (DTDs).
• docbook - SGML DTD for software documentation
• docbook-doc - documentation for the DocBook DTD.
• docbook-stylesheets - modular DocBook stylesheets, for print and HTML
• docbook-stylesheets-doc - modular DocBook stylesheets documentation
• docbook-to-man - converter from DocBook SGML into roff -man macros.
• docbook-xml - XML DTD for DocBook, also known as DocBk XML
• docbook2man - Perl SGMLS spec file to convert DocBook SGML docs into troff
• docbook2texi - Perl SGMLS spec file to convert DocBook SGML docs into Texinfo
• psgml - an emacs major mode for editing SGML documents.
• sgml-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD _only_.
• sgmltools-2 - second generation SGML text formatting system based on the DocBook DTD
• libsgmls-perl - Perl modules to process SGML parser output
• sgmlspl - SGMLS-based (example) Perl script to process SGML parser output
• sgmls-doc - HTML documentation for libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl
• debiandoc-sgml-doc-pt-br - documentation for DebianDoc-SGML in Brazilian Portuguese
• yasgml - Yet Another SGML mode
• zh-sgmltools - a wrapper for SGMLtools to process Chinese
• task-sgml-dev - SGML and XML development environment
• sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools
• jade - James Clark's DSSSL Engine
• jadetex - LaTeX macros for SGML to DVI/PS/PDF conversion with Jade
• docbook2x-doc - HTML docmentation of the docbook2x packages

(http://www.debian.org/~sano/linuxdoc-tools/)

If I write a new howto document based on the template in the hotwto-howto and want to create html files from that using jade, it creates files with silly names x123.htm, x456.htm and so on instead of my_howto_1.htm and so forth.

I'd like to notice you that I started writing "NetWare Loadable Module programming HOWTO". This howto describes how to develop NLMs using GNU CC and GNU binutils under Linux. If you are interested, look at http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/nlm/. Please note that this project is in very early stages of development!

I just wanted to inform you that I am beginning work on the Linux Usenet News HOWTO. It has not been maintained for three years now. I had already informed the HOWTO maintainers many months ago. Nothing was done at my end since then. :)

Make them subsubsections.

So if 5.2 is about OpenLDAP then 5.2.1 would be using plain source files
and 5.2.2 would be about RPM.

Then someone can send in some info to make 5.2.3 which is about Debian.

(Just an example of how I would do it.)

I've been working on some documentation under the provisional name "Getting Linux into the Commercial Environment HOWTO" which aims to address the more abstract issues presented to netadmins and sysadmins. I'm focusing much less on the technical details of being an admin (the NAG and Aeleen Frisch's SAG have thoroughly covered this field) and far more on the technical logistics of rolling Linux out (after which NAG and SAG takes over) and the internal politics of such a move.

OK, so it is the time for another entry to the Linux Weekly News. A
draft is ready for your perusal at
        http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/lwn2_3.html

Next issue is out this Thursday and we won't make that deadline.
Instead I hope we can get this in for next week, sos bring me all
your feedback.