From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Nov 2 11:22:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA16947 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 11:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16933 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 11:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA22815; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:22:06 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA11873; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:22:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id UAA01661; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:02:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611021902.UAA01661@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bugs and glitches To: ursa@cris.com (amg) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:02:35 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <327B406F.3F48@cris.com> from amg at "Nov 2, 96 12:37:03 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As amg wrote: > 1. man nice - gives information on the command but NOT the > system call It's not a system call actually, but a library function, hence man 3 nice (If you want all man pages from all sections, type `man -a nice'.) > 2. man makedoc - gives no output, file is located in /usr/bin > > 3. man makeinfo - gives no output, file is located in /usr/bin They are certainly not the only utilities without man pages. You are invited to write them... j@uriah 371% whereis -m -u /usr/bin/* | tr -d : | fmt banner brandelf c++filt curseperl gencat genclass gprof4 linux makedoc makeinfo mk_cmds ncftp neqn psroff ptx sperl4 texindex tperl4 uulog uuname uupick uusched uuto ypwhich > 4. /usr/bin/manpath - included in the output is the line: > "couldn't stat the file /usr/X386/man" Comment out the appropriate entry in /etc/manpath.config. (This has already been fixed in the source tree.) > 5. vidcontrol VGA_80x50 - tells me invalid argument, however, it > does work with VGA_80x30 I'm mostly ignorant towards syscons, but are you sure you've got the 8x8 font loaded at all? I think it's required for 50-line operation. > 6. using the bash shell, because I cannot get a good Korn shell, > when issuing the command "/usr/bin/makewhatis", the response > is "invalid file or directory". However, the file does > exist with 555 permissions and a size of 11303 bytes. I cannot reproduce this. Try to isolate it down. > I am sending this along in hopes that fixing these kind of things > is more important than adding more doo-dads. Both are important. However, the number of people reporting bug fixes is far larger than the number of people fixing the bugs. Everybody is invited to help out. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)