[Pan-users] Re: is gmane eating some of my posts?

[Duncan]

Thufir <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:12:20
+0000:

> It was relatively minor :)
> 
> Just that the gmane folks kept repeating the mantra of "it's in the faq"
> when I was trying to determine the faq's validity.

Circles.  =8^(  Yeah, that gets frustrating, sometimes.  But not everyone 
has documentation like the Linux CD (burning or ROM, IDR which) HOWTO I 
was rereading* the other day, which cautions about something 
(paraphrased) "unless you have a newer kernel, previous to 2.0.x, there 
was a bug that caused...."  Let's see.... that's gotta be somewhat before 
the turn of the century, 1998 or so, I'd guess...  (That's "newer", 
according to the HOWTO.)

Of course, keeping it topical, unlike pan, they /have/ documentation.  I 
wonder how the wiki and other doc project are going.  I still need to get 
around to doing some serious looking at them and see if I have any 
suggestions.

* (I had an issue with the loopback driver and I remembered a mention of 
it in the CD-something HOWTOs, so I was back reading them, making sure I 
had the mount command line format for mounting images using the loopback 
correct.  Turns out the problem was simply that udev doesn't seem to 
create loopback devices when the module is loaded, even tho there's an 
entry for them in the udev rules.  Creating them by hand worked, and I 
then created a script to call to do it so I wouldn't have to lookup the 
major device number (block 7, IIRC) the next time.)

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