From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 16:45:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D4916A402 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:45:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD30213C457 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:45:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l2JGj9vu017137 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:45:16 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2JGiphF060602; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:45:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2JGip6i060508; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:44:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:44:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Monah Baki Message-ID: <20070319164450.GB51503@kobe.laptop> References: <2673.192.60.228.188.1174319219.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2673.192.60.228.188.1174319219.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.508, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.69, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:45:49 -0000 On 2007-03-19 11:46, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > I have a machine running freebsd 6.2 stable > > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #5: Sat Mar 17 15:15:14 EDT 2007 > mbaki@storm.wire.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > > If I issue man ifconfig for example, at the end of the man I get the > following: > FreeBSD 6.1 February 27, 2006 FreeBSD 6.1 > > How can I fix it to say 6.2 instead of 6.1 You are probably looking at a 'cached' copy of the preformatted manpage. The preformatted, cached copies of the manpages live in the `/usr/share/man/cat?' directories. You can verify that it is indeed this cached copy that you are reading with: $ man -w ifconfig If you see something like this: $ man -w ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz $ Then you are not using a cached, preformatted copy. If, on the other hand, you see something like: $ man -w ifconfig /usr/share/man/cat8/ifconfig.8.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz) $ then it's a preformatted copy that you are going to read. You can safely remove all the preformatted manpage copies, with: bash# cd /usr/share/man bash# find cat? \! -type d | xargs rm HTH, Giorgos