Date: 08 Oct 2001 13:37:03 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/29525: hier(7) has sometimes-erroneous descriptions of tmp dirs. Message-ID: <3xd73xhnrk.73x@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200110080410.f984A4n88751@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200110080410.f984A4n88751@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > How about the following patch? Does this please everyone? > > +.Sh NOTES > +This manual page documents the default FreeBSD filesystem layout, but > +the actual hierarchy on a given system is defined at the system > +administrator's discretion. > +A well-maintained installation will include a customized version of > +this document. It pleases this one. It leaves the man page in error, in my judgement, because by default neither /tmp or /var/tmp is cleaned at boot, while the man page implies that /tmp IS cleaned. (It says /var/tmp is not cleaned.) But the addition helps and I'll let the other stuff drop. (I'm starting to get bumbed out by hitting up against the desire of man page maintainers to keep the man pages lean and mean (and often unclear or otherwise unhelpful), but I've known about that for twenty years and mostly understand it and I'll do my best to deal with it gracefully.) P.S. Should I have CC's this to freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org as well? I suspect that it is best to just use one's judgement about what to CC there, right? P.P.S. Is there a way to change one's e-mail address in the PR database? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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