Where is the documentation?

ember1205

Yep. All my fault. Got it.

Guess the posts that I put before this one and all of the direct forum searches and searches via Google don't really matter.

Hey, Admins…kill my account. I won't bother returning.

heper

yes oddly enough your first post 5 days ago (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=83065.msg454681#msg454681), only got 5 replies with suggestions.
then you decided not to continue that thread.

then you started this thread to blame the entire community, for having crappy documentation.

then you are surprised that you are being called a troll.

sorry for

riahc3

There is something I would wish for:

I wish there was a automatic server that builds a PDF of the https://doc.pfsense.org site.

This way you can have a more or less up to date offline documentation of pfSense available to download whenever you want.

stephenw10

Interesting suggestion. I bet there's a 'wiki downloader' of something similar that would do it, probably better. It might even be syncable.

Steve

aGeekhere

Would this do ? http://www.httrack.com/

riahc3

@aGeekHere:

Would this do ? http://www.httrack.com/

No. This just downloads a website which wget can do.

Something fully automated by a server that makes a organized PDF document on the fly.

stephenw10

It's the sort of thing I would expect to exist but a quick google doesn't show much that's promising. The search gets bogged down by code to download the whole of wikipedia though. ::)

Steve

riahc3

@stephenw10:

It's the sort of thing I would expect to exist but a quick google doesn't show much that's promising. The search gets bogged down by code to download the whole of wikipedia though. ::)

Steve

Sadly, I think it would have to be created inhouse by pfSense. And its not that easy to implement.

jimp

There are mediawiki plugins to generate such a document on the server side, though I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to implement or not. People might mistake that for the actual book. Not to mention it would take quite a bit of space/cpu time to generate.

GruensFroeschli

I've played quite a lot with mediawiki to pdf exporters.
My conclusion is that none are satisfying. You always get a lot of mis-formatted stuff.

stephenw10

Better than nothing when you just hosed your pfSense install and have no internet connection?

Steve

aGeekhere

Then you could have an offline copy of pfsense and even the forum using httrack ?