NAME
mrtg-forum - Interactive Help for MRTG users
SYNOPSIS
There is a lot of written documentation for mrtg, but nevertheless you
may have a problem where you can’t find the solution. In this case
some Human Help may be necessary. With MRTG there are several ways to
get Humans to help you.
MAILING-LIST
There are three mailing lists for MRTG available.
mrtg
for discussion among mrtg users.
mrtg-announce
for announcements regarding new versions of mrtg related software.
mrtg-developers
for discussion among people who write software in connection with
mrtg or who hack mrtg itself.
THE RULES
Please note that the memebers of the mrtg mailinglist value politeness
highly. This means behave in a way you would like others to behave
towards you.
· No shouting. (NO CAPS)
· No rude language
· No demands. everybody is on the list out of their own free will. If
you do not get an answer to your question, chances are high that
you did not give sufficent details about the nature of your problem
or that the answer to your problem is in the documentation.
· If you do not follow the rules you will be unsubscribed from the
list with no further questions asked.
· Decisions about your unsubscription from the list will be taken by
Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at ergens.op.het.net>
Paul C. Williamson <pwilliamson at MANDTBANK.COM>
If you feel that you have been treated unfairly, you may send mail
to me and explain the situation.
Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
SUBSCRIBING
These lists are managed by a mailing-list management program (listar).
It allows you to subscribe to these lists by sending a message with the
subject: subscribe to the following address:
listname-request@lists.oetiker.ch
You will then get a message asking you to confirm your subscription.
For posting to the lists use the following address
listname@lists.oetiker.ch
Note that only people who are subscribed to the list can post.
Further information about the usage of the mailing lists is available
by sending a message with the subject line help to either one of the
request addresses.
There is also a webinterface to the lists on
http://lists.oetiker.ch
List archives are on
http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=mrtg
and
http://gmane.org/find.php?list=mrtg
NEWSGROUP
For discussion of MRTG or related topics on the Usenet, please send
your posts to:
news:comp.dcom.net-management
Many MRTG users are in this forum and will help you. You can also find
an archive of past activity from this Newsgroup on:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.net-management
IRC Channel
For discussion of MRTG and related topics on IRC, the ‘#mrtg’ channel
on EFNet has been created.
More information can be found at
http://mrtg.easymac.org
MRTG Japan
There is a special Mailinglist for MRTG Users in Japan. It carries
translations of the traffic from MRTG-ANNOUNCE as well as updates on
the Japanese Translation of the MRTG documentation. Go to
http://www.mrtg.jp/ for further Information.
AUTHOR
Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> and many contributors