On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:41:42AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > first a big thanks for new version 1.7 of inetutils. > > You're welcome! > > Beginning with this version all main-pages are installed in section > 1. IMO all man-pages for daemons, like inetd, have be in > man-section 8. > > I'm not versed in man page sections, what is special about section 8? >
Section 8 is reserved for "System Administration tools and Deamons" whereas section 1 for "User Commands". See man(1) for the full list.
