On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Guido Tschakert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while reading the discussion about spamd, I decided to learn a little
> bit about it and have a look in the manual, but man spamd yields to the
> manual of "spamd - daemonized version of spamassassin" what is not
> exactly what I was looking for. (I installed p5-Mail-SpamAssasin from
> ports/packages)
>
> apropos spamd shows:
> spamd (8) - spam deferral daemon
> spamd-setup (8) - parse and load file of spammer addresses
> spamd.conf (5) - configuration file read by spamd-setup(8) for spamd(8)
> spamdb (8) - spamd database tool
> spamlogd (8) - spamd whitelist updating daemon
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Client (3p) - Client for spamd Protocol
> spamc (1) - client for spamd
> spamd (1) - daemonized version of spamassassin
> spamd (8) - daemonized version of spamassassin
>
> The first and the last entry are both spamd (8), but spamassassin from
> ports has overwritten /usr/local/man/man8/spamd.8 from the system (which
> I am looking for)
The system's version is in /usr/share/man/cat8/spamd.0 by default.
You can see them all with man -a spamd. (At least on my 4.0-stable)
As a work-around, you can name the spamassassin spamd's man pages something
else, say Spamd.
> I don't know if there is an easy solution for this (I don't want to call
> it a problem), but I think this shouldn't happen.
This is probably a matter for the spamassassin port maintainter. Renaming
its spamd would not be hard.
Dave
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