Re: [Cooker] Man Page for resolv.conf
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. -- fg "You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish" (HP/UX' tunefs manpage)
Re: [Cooker] Man Page for resolv.conf
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
Re: [Cooker] Man Page for resolv.conf
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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: OK, my previous mail didn't arrive (bad reply-to field) so here it is: there are TWO resolver man pages, one in section 3 which documents the API and one in section 5 which documents the resolv.conf file format. As for me section 3 has priority over section 5, I stumbled on the "real" resolver man page. IMHO the resolver(5) manpage should not be linked to resolv.conf but renamed to it. -- Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook
[Cooker] Man Page for resolv.conf
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. Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Linux Mentor [1 314 692-1942] Wave Technologies, Inc. [1 800 826-4640 x1942] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935][Yahoo - Don_Wave]
