11.2. Newsgroups Mailing lists usually have archives: (Web server logs)
11.2. Newsgroups Mailing lists usually have archives: check them out! Your question may have been debated just before you subscribed to the list; 11.2. Newsgroups Before asking for help on newsgroups, it is advisable to find out if your problem has already been covered (or solved) on Google Groups [http://groups.google. com/]. If nothing is relevant to your question, then go to a newsgroup entirely devoted to Mandriva Linux [news:alt.os.linux.mandriva]. You may also join many other groups in the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy : comp.os.linux.setup [news:comp.os.linux.setup]: questions about Linux configuration (devices, configuration of applications) and resolution of miscellaneous problems. comp.os.linux.misc [news:comp.os.linux.misc]: whatever doesn’t fit in any other group. and others… Before posting to one of these groups, make sure you have done your homework and read the available documentation on your specific issue. If you have not, you will most likely get the following answer: RTFM. And nothing more! 12. Mandriva Linux’s Specific Troubleshooting Tools Each administration tool (the ones started from Mandriva Linux Control Center) is a potential trouble fixing tool. You can use all these tools to revert configuration changes, to add or remove software, to update your system with the latest fixes from Mandriva, etc. If you think you have found a bug in any of our tools, please feel free to submit a bug report using Drakbug, our automated bug report tool, see Section 3, The Drakbug Reporting Tool [206] for more information. 13. General Guidelines for Solving a Problem under Mandriva Linux Here are the different means available to you in your problem-solving quest. Try the first option and only then, if that does not work, try the second, and so on.