Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/25124: No man pages for quota.user(5) and/or quota.group(5) Message-ID: <200102171750.f1HHo2800460@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/25124; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> 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 09:40:58 -0800 In message <20010217144115.C13544@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>, you wrote: >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. Yes. So I discovered. >edquota(8) converts them in to a >textual representation, lets you edit them, and converts them back. Yep. I figured that part out too. >> 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? Your suggestion sounds like the best way to go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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