Francis Galiegue wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Don Head wrote:
>
> > Any posiblity of sticking in a symlink for
> > resolv.conf in the man-pages RPM? I spent quite
> > a few minutes figuring out that "man resolver"
> > needs to be used rather than "man resolv.conf".
> >
> > A simple "ln -s /usr/man/man5/resolver.5.bz2
> > /usr/man/man5/resolv.conf.5.bz2" would be
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> Huh, the resolver manpage is not about the format of resolv.conf file at all...
>
> As there is no relationship between this manpage and the resolv.conf file, I'm
> against that symlink (which should be a link anyway, because they're in the
> same directory). And moreover, as this manpage describes the resolver API, it
> should be in section 3 IMHO.
Did you try "man resolver"? If so, you would have discovered that it is
specific to the format of /etc/resolv.conf and that Don was correct:
RESOLVER(5) System Programmer's Manual
RESOLVER(5)
NAME
resolver - resolver configuration file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/resolv.conf
DESCRIPTION
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library (resolve(3))
that
provide access to the Internet Domain Name System. The resolver
configu
ration file contains information that is read by the resolver
routines
the first time they are invoked by a process....
