From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Feb 17 7:50: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9822E37B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1HFo4o86779; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:50:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102171550.f1HFo4o86779@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: docs/25124: No man pages for quota.user(5) and/or quota.group(5) Reply-To: Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/25124; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nik Clayton To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/25124: No man pages for quota.user(5) and/or quota.group(5) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:41:15 +0000 On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:15:19PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >Synopsis: No man pages for quota.user(5) and/or quota.group(5) > > The quotacheck(8) man page refers to two magical files, i.e. > "quota.user" and "quota.group" but I have been unable to find > any man pages that describe the exact contents/formal/layout of > these magical files. They are (I think) binary files. edquota(8) converts them in to a textual representation, lets you edit them, and converts them back. > Shouldn't there exist a quota.user(5) man page and a quota.group(5) > man page, specifying the format of these files? Probably not. What there probably should be is a quota.user(5) and quota.group(5) which explains that these are binary files, and should be edited by edquota(8). quotacheck(8) should probably mention that these files should be edited by edquota(8). Thoughts? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message