From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 19:51:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3562A16A41F for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:51:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mtbeedee@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E6843D49 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:51:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mtbeedee@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i6so33526wra for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:51:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VwF/xBh/LveazglYwikGWBsL5+WhkvT3yZPwqeWZC8OoiaYKnNXJLeHsuBgxkQCl0UZeefaIRfbrqKqK/Kx9Yt2tWSem2Cw0+ZrgTS27NN5hAtiBwhjuEOGmmIQ+PWPu4YmARjGO8EzsNS4kMpclQbs2nbD118nCUQb2aalUZd8= Received: by 10.54.8.9 with SMTP id 9mr70833wrh; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.159.9 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:51:50 -0400 From: Michael Beattie To: Efren Bravo In-Reply-To: <42CC34D9.3070107@dhl.co.cu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42CC34D9.3070107@dhl.co.cu> Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Simple question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael Beattie List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:51:51 -0000 On 7/6/05, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi again, >=20 > I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD > Handbook and there I always find this references: >=20 > sendmail(8) > sshd(8) > /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers >=20 > Thanks >=20 The numbers refer to what "section" of the manual it is in. Here's a list of what the sections are Section The human readable name 1 User commands that may be started by everyone. 2 System calls, that is, functions provided by the kernel. 3 Subroutines, that is, library functions. 4 Devices, that is, special files in the /dev directory. 5 File format descriptions, e.g. /etc/passwd. 6 Games, self-explanatory. 7 Miscellaneous, e.g. macro packages, conventions. 8 System administration tools that only root can execute.