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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 1999 02:47:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
To:        kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway)
Cc:        jesus.monroy@usa.net (Jesus Monroy), doc@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Survey: online documentation 15% incorrect
Message-ID:  <199906240747.CAA15702@mpp.pro-ns.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906241704070.21553-100000@bragg> from Kris Kennaway at "Jun 24, 1999 05:05:09 pm"

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> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote:
> > One interesting problem your survery points out is that whatis/makewhatis
> > get confused about inetd.conf and inetd.  It lists them both as section
> > 5 man pages, when only inetd is section 8.  This is because
> > the inetd Makefile MLINKS inetd.8 to inetd.conf.5.  There are
> > probably a few other commands that might be doing this.  I'll have
> > to look at this closer.  
> 
> Wasn't this just fixed in the past few days? I remember a commit message
> citing rpc.statd as an example. Or maybe I don't.

That was whereis, not whatis.  It was a fix to prevent it from stripping
the suffix off of commands like rpc.statd.  Two different problems.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net


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