Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 02:24:00 +0900 From: k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/4161: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. Message-ID: <199707241724.CAA19111@mail.yk.rim.or.jp> Resent-Message-ID: <199707241730.KAA13249@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4161
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 24 10:30:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kazuo Horikawa
>Organization:
personal user
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
.\" @(#)arp.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
>Description:
manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced.
"man arp" shows following output:
host address is not its own. In this case the ether_addr can be
given as `auto'' in which case the interfaces on this host will
be examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the same sub-
net, its ether_addr will be used.
>How-To-Repeat:
% man arp
>Fix:
--- arp.8.bak Fri Jul 25 02:11:56 1997
+++ arp.8 Mon Jul 21 03:00:34 1997
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
responding to requests for
.Ar hostname
even though the host address is not its own.
-In this case the ether_addr can be given as `auto''
+In this case the ether_addr can be given as ``auto''
in which case the interfaces on this host will be examined,
and if one of them is found to occupy the same subnet, its
ether_addr will be used.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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