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authormozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>2008-04-04 13:48:13 +0200
committermozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>2008-04-04 13:48:13 +0200
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Bug 302979: Bring mail sending docs up to date
Patch by: Ville Skyttäville.skytta@iki.fi> and victory <bmo@rsz.jp>; r=colin
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diff --git a/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml b/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
index 6afca0b9c..79fb2baeb 100644
--- a/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
+++ b/docs/en/xml/glossary.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<glossdiv>
<title>0-9, high ascii</title>
- <glossentry>
+ <glossentry id="gloss-htaccess">
<glossterm>.htaccess</glossterm>
<glossdef>
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-cpan">
- <glossterm>
- <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
- </glossterm>
+ <glossterm>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</glossterm>
+ <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
+ <!-- TODO: Rewrite def for CPAN -->
<glossdef>
<para>
<acronym>CPAN</acronym>
@@ -170,12 +170,32 @@
particular task.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-contrib">
+ <glossterm><filename class="directory">contrib</filename></glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory is
+ a location to put scripts that have been contributed to Bugzilla but
+ are not a part of the official distribution. These scripts are written
+ by third parties and may be in languages other than perl. For those
+ that are in perl, there may be additional modules or other requirements
+ than those of the offical distribution.
+ <note>
+ <para>Scripts in the <filename class="directory">contrib</filename>
+ directory are not offically supported by the Bugzilla team and may
+ break in between versions.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv id="gloss-d">
<title>D</title>
- <glossentry>
+ <glossentry id="gloss-daemon">
<glossterm>daemon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
@@ -188,6 +208,23 @@
a web server, are generally run as daemons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-dos">
+ <glossterm>DOS Attack</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A DOS, or Denial of Service attack, is when a user attempts to
+ deny access to a web server by repeatadly accessing a page or sending
+ malformed requests to a webserver. This can be effectively prevented
+ by using <filename>mod_throttle</filename> as described in
+ <xref linkend="security-webserver-mod-throttle"/>. A D-DOS, or
+ Distributed Denial of Service attack, is when these requests come
+ from multiple sources at the same time. Unfortunately, these are much
+ more difficult to defend against.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv id="gloss-g">
@@ -232,10 +269,11 @@
<glossdef>
<para>A Message Transport Agent is used to control the flow of email
- on a system. Many unix based systems use
- <ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org">sendmail</ulink> which is what
- Bugzilla expects to find by default at <filename>/usr/sbin/sendmail</filename>.
- Many other MTA's will work, but they all require that the
+ on a system. The <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/MailTools/Mail/Mailer.pm">Mail::Mailer</ulink>
+ Perl module, which Bugzilla uses to send email, can be configured to
+ use many different underlying implementations for actually sending the
+ mail using the <option>mail_delivery_method</option> parameter.
+ Implementations other than <literal>sendmail</literal> require that the
<option>sendmailnow</option> param be set to <literal>on</literal>.
</para>
</glossdef>
@@ -283,6 +321,16 @@
<glossdiv id="gloss-p">
<title>P</title>
+ <glossentry id="gloss-ppm">
+ <glossterm>Perl Package Manager</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PPM</acronym>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para><ulink url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/"/>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry>
<glossterm id="gloss-product">Product</glossterm>
@@ -363,6 +411,19 @@
<glossdiv id="gloss-s">
<title>S</title>
+ <glossentry id="gloss-service">
+ <glossterm>Service</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>In Windows NT environment, a boot-time background application
+ is refered to as a service. These are generally managed through the
+ control pannel while logged in as an account with
+ <quote>Administrator</quote> level capabilities. For more
+ information, consult your Windows manual or the MSKB.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry>
<glossterm>
<acronym>SGML</acronym>
@@ -490,4 +551,3 @@ sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
End:
-->
-