From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Dec 2 22: 0:12 2001 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 8937A37B419 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB3601g31539; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A0237B417 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A512CBD09 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA02735 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:56:33 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB35uhH14852; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) Message-Id: <10n110n8x1.110@localhost.localdomain> Date: 02 Dec 2001 21:56:42 -0800 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" Reply-To: swear@blarg.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/32462: ifconfig(8) has extraneous "prefixlength". 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 >Number: 32462 >Category: docs >Synopsis: ifconfig(8) has extraneous "prefixlength". >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 02 22:00:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gary W. Swearingen >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 >Organization: none >Environment: n/a ================ >Description: The first "synopsis" example has a "[/prefixlength]" which shouldn't be there, since that stuff is part of the preceeding "address" as is explained in the description of "address". (The way it is now, 192.168.0.1/16/prefixlength would be a proper operand. Note that "prefixlength" is not mentioned by name anywhere.) ================ >How-To-Repeat: n/a ================ >Fix: patch -d "unknown uncompressed man directory" < this-PR --- ifconfig..orig.8 Sun Dec 2 21:40:51 2001 +++ ifconfig.8 Sun Dec 2 21:53:40 2001 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ .Op Cm create .Op Ar address_family .Oo -.Ar address Ns Op Cm / Ns Ar prefixlength +.Ar address .Op Ar dest_address .Oc .Op Ar parameters >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message