On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> I really hadn't intended to suggest that "man sendmail" should show
> anything other than exactly what it does now.
A "good" result might be:
man sendmail
Shows the man page for /usr/sbin/sendmail (aka mailwrapper), which has a
reference to the "real" /usr/lib/sendmail and other MTAs.
man -s1M sendmail
Shows the "real" sendmail manpage, with a reference to mailwrapper.
man -s1M <other MTA program>
Shows the "real" <whatever MTA>, with a reference to mailwrapper
Alternatively, you could take a hint from VFS/mount (via the intro(1M) manpage:
Because of command restructuring for the Virtual File System
architecture, there are several instances of multiple manual
pages that begin with the same name. For example, the
mount, pages - mount(1M), mount_cachefs(1M), mount_hsfs(1M),
mount_nfs(1M), mount_tmpfs(1M), and mount_ufs(1M). In each
such case the first of the multiple pages describes the syn-
tax and options of the generic command, that is, those
options applicable to all FSTypes (file system types). The
succeeding pages describe the functionality of the FSType-
specific modules of the command. These pages list the com-
mand followed by an underscore ( _ ) and the FSType to which
they pertain. Note that the administrator should not attempt ...
-John
