From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 6 18:39:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC38837B404 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020407023911.QCJS3676.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 02:39:11 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g372d4U71035; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:39:04 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Earl A. Killian" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing man 5 pages Message-ID: <20020406183904.D70207@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200204070141.g371fbX24687@gate.killian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200204070141.g371fbX24687@gate.killian.com>; from earl@killian.com on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:41:37PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:41:37PM -0800, Earl A. Killian wrote: > Recently, someone fixed the missing host.conf(5) man page in > freebsd-stable. (Thank you!) > > On a whim, I decided to see what else might be missing using the > following command: > > gate% strings /usr/lib/libc.so | sort -u | perl -n -e 'if (m{^/etc/(.*)$}) { system("man 5 $1 > /dev/null"); }' > No entry for host.conf in section 5 of the manual > No entry for localtime in section 5 of the manual Link it to tzfile(5) and add some information about /etc/localtime in the manpage? Note the localtime(3) manpage is not a lot of help for this file. > No entry for malloc.conf in section 5 of the manual I would expect most people can probably find the malloc(3) manpage on their own. It describes the file. > No entry for objformat in section 5 of the manual Again, I think objformat(1) is an easy find. > No entry for pwd.db in section 5 of the manual > No entry for spwd.db in section 5 of the manual Links to passwd(5). > I would think localtime and malloc.conf at least deserve man pages. I think localtime(5) is warranted too. However, I think malloc(3) is pretty easy for someone to find if they have questions about /etc/malloc.conf. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message