From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 11:33:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2247616A417; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:33:41 +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 8111F13C4AA; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:33:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile-rio.ondsl.gr [83.235.57.37]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id l9UBXDaV023877 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:33:22 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9UBWnYD011198; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:33:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9UBWlKO010957; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:32:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:32:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20071030113247.GA3941@kobe.laptop> References: <47240A15.8080305@charter.net> <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <4724BAD9.7000400@charter.net> <20071028164152.GA7516@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4724BEB3.5080905@charter.net> <20071029132447.GA2658@kobe.laptop> <20071029191836.GA58058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071029191836.GA58058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.989, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.41, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Andrew Lankford , stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:33:41 -0000 On 2007-10-29 12:18, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could > > > disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it > > > again if needed. Thanks! > > > > Ah, that's it then :) > > > > My usual `installworld' steps include this too: > > > > # cd /usr/share/man > > # find cat[0-9] \! -type d -exec rm {} + > > There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which > rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense > mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff formatting > mistakes. Have a look: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html Very interesting. Maybe we can tweak 330.catman to display the filename of the manpage which causes each error. Then we could use the periodic script as an aid to start actually *fixing* the errors :)