From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 6:50: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penkovsky.complexsys.net (cn863530-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.15.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B2437B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from prm@complexsys.net) Received: from penkovsky.complexsys.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ACDF723E04; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:53:13 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Philip R.Moyer Reply-To: prm@complexsys.net Organization: Complex Systems Analysis To: k s Subject: Re: netgraph(4) ? (3) ? hmm Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:53:13 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010417133957.55619.qmail@web12004.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010417133957.55619.qmail@web12004.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041709531301.04529@penkovsky.complexsys.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 17 April 2001 09:39, you wrote: > Hi all, > here is a bit of classic ignorance for you. > what is the (4) bit mean...version I presume! > I am running freebsd 4.2 > How do I get netgraph(4) if it has (3) on it? Keith, That is the manual "section" number. The man pages on a UNIX system are broken down by section: 1 - general user commands 2 - system calls 3 - library functions 4 - special files (like devices) 5 - file formats 6 - games 7 - conventions and misc 8 - system administration commands You can get useful information by entering "man
intro". You can specify the section number to the man(1) command to get the page you want. For example, there are eight intro pages, at least. To get intro for section 4, you type "man 4 intro". So, to answer your last question, you type "man 3 netgraph". The short answer, of course, is "RTFM," but since that's what you were asking how to do, I thought a little more info was in order. Cheers, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message