Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:53:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf Message-ID: <874om1ce1o.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4B66B46B.806@eskk.nu> (Leslie Jensen's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 %2B0100") References: <4B66B46B.806@eskk.nu>
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--=-=-= <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=locale_name:\ > :tc=default: > > If I look in the file on a newly installed 8.0-RELEASE it shows: > > russian|Russian Users Accounts:\ > :charset=KOI8-R:\ > :lang=ru_RU.KOI8-R:\ > :tc=default: > > Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:16:06 +0000, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Probably the latter. The '|' symbol is used when there are several > alternative names for the same object -- this is not used much in > /etc/login.conf, unlike /etc/termcap. By convention, the last name in > a list of alternates like this is a comment rather than a tag for > actual use. See getcap(3) for details. > > The first entry is syntactically correct -- 'accounts_title' would be > a boolean value (set to true if present, false if absent) -- but the > login.conf man page knows nothing of 'accounts_title' and it's a funny > name for a boolean. So I guess that's likely to be a typo in the > handbook. Yes, this is a typo in the Handbook. I just committed a fix for the typo in revision 1.132 of doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml ---------------------------- revision 1.132 date: 2010/02/01 12:52:51; author: keramida; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Fix typo in login.conf example. The aliases for login.conf entries are separated by the main name with a pipe '|', and there is no support for an "accounts_type" key in the database. Use a whitespace-separated name in the example, to indicate that it's ok to have spaces in login.conf entry aliases. Noticed by: Leslie Jensen, leslie at eskk.nu, Matthew Seaman, m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk ---------------------------- Thanks for bringing this to our attention :) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAktmzuMACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7ZnggCeIK+Gcah1fGkz1MPuovINzfb8 KUsAoL1bG3ydtIRGp0RwX06IzEPjX1dL =a4xX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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