From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Mar 17 13: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502F337B402 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2HL05I39949; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203172100.g2HL05I39949@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats. Reply-To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/35942; it has been noted by GNATS. From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats. Date: 17 Mar 2002 12:54:09 -0800 Giorgos Keramidas writes: Much of what you added is already explained in the manual in a less ambiguous manner. I fear that your addition (especially for "deny") will confuse some readers. Please excuse my bluntness. Better to limit your addition to the format of the file, which in your patch is "one per line". And since users often make guesses about what might be allowed, namely leading or trailing whitespace and comments, it should "head off" failed experiments by being explicit on those topics. I haven't looked at the code and so won't propose wording, but for the crontab(1)'s manual, my patch contained In these two files, a user is considered to be listed only if the user name has no blank or other characters before it on its line and a newline character immediately after the name, even at the end of the file. Other lines are ignored and may be used for comments. This was discussed back in October along with discussion of changing the program's end-of-file behavior, but I don't see any changes in the 4.5 crontab manual and I do see that users see it dated "1993"; both bad "PR", in one sense or another. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message