Bleachbit fails to act on anything

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

>I recently decided it was time to run rsync as a server for doing 
>nightly local backups.

I use the Grsync GUI to do my backups. I'm not sure if it would work
as a server, but that could be looked into.

>I tried to follow the local manpage for this and there was just too
>much jumping around to figure it out.  So off to linux.die.net.

For the big ones (like the bash man page), I'll do:

man bash > bashmanpage.txt

Then I can open it in a text editor and search it much more easily
than while it's in the terminal window.

>But even then, I did not get how simple it really is to set up the 
>password file.  I have to ask for help on that; I was overthinking 
>things.  All to common for me!

That happens to all of us.

>So getting the -a option for cp was easy with the manpage.
>Setting up an rsync server, not so much....
>
>Then there was figuring out that -v in rsync was all I needed to see 
>WHAT files were altered.  THAT was not obvious at all to me!
>
>Each challenge is a learning opportunity!

This is one of the complaints that I have about man pages. They don't
tend to have real-world examples in them. I've set myself the task of
updating man pages upstream and have done all of the learning on how
to properly write them (best practices and all that), the syntax for
doing so, etc. Now it's just a matter of having the time to do it. It
will remain my pet project to shoot for, though, because the wish for
real-world examples in man pages is all too common and rears its head
rather often.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.