Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 06:59:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), jobe@attrition.org (Jobe), nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner), dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton) Subject: Re: Documentation of security features Message-ID: <199909211159.GAA10330@mpp.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <199909191824.LAA55646@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Sep 19, 1999 11:24:57 am"
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> > At 10:31 AM 9/19/99 -0600, Jobe wrote: > > > Now there is one more problem, and that is what I think is really > going on here with the person reporting non-linked files. They are > looking in /usr/share/man/cat* at the formatted cache, now that can > grow as man(1)'s cache can't tell if the source files are hard linked > and generates an individual formatted copy for each man entry, even > if it already has it filed under another name. I forgot about that point. I've been thinking about re-working man and whatis to try and eliminate the need for MLINKS. Everything that man & whatis require SHOULD be in the actual man page. There is no reason we need to use the file system as a database. .../man/cat* is another good example of this. (Sheldon, I will get back to you on this in the next few days, I promose :-) > > >People need to start posting more meaningful things, and stop > > >inventing reasons to post to this mailing list. > > > > Documenting key security options is meaningful, IMHO. If nothing > > else, we should add links for securelevel and similar things that > > users are not finding. > > Then go make ptx(info) produce the full blown permuted index again > and be done with it. That is the standard unix tool for finding > just about everything about anything in the manual pages. It has > been missing for far to long to ignore any longer!! I should have some time this week, so I'll try and look into the permuted index. It should be possible to make that into something "man" can digest. E.g. "man index". -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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