OK, it all looks fine now.

Amanda

Lizhong Li wrote:
> Amanda Waite wrote:
>   
>> The two man pages you've created have interface stability information 
>> in them, which is correct when creating new man pages, but you then 
>> install them with '_install M' which adds the contents of 
>> sunman-stability to them.
>>
>> Can you check the man page only has the interface stability specified 
>> once. I believe that if you create your own man pages including 
>> stability information, you should install them as ordinary files.
>>     
> Yes, the two man pages have interface stability information in them, so 
> I'll use '_install N' for them.
>
> The webrev is updated.
>
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~uniopen/mrtg/
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
>> Otherwise it looks fine.
>>
>> BTW: The interface stability is different in the man pages to that 
>> specified in the sunman-stability file, which may or may not be a 
>> problem.
>>
>> Amanda
>>
>>
>> Lizhong Li wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just updated the webrev according your comments, could you kindly help
>>> me review it ?
>>>
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~uniopen/mrtg/
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul Cunningham wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>>> Is it enough for an brief manpage if it's necessary to put the command
>>>>> rateup into /usr/bin/ ?
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> That's sounds okay to me
>>>>
>>>> p
>>>>
>>>> Lizhong Li wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> Paul and Jim,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just found that some customers maybe uses this tool 'rateup' to 
>>>>> generate graphs they want ( see the link below ), so perhaps we 
>>>>> should add a brief manpage for it ?
>>>>> http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/nable-mrtg.en.html#nabble-td831333%7Ca831333 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is it applicable to move it to other dirs instead of /usr/bin/ 
>>>>> since just few customers uses this tool ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Cunningham wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>>>>>>>> I can add the manpage for mrtg-traffic-sum,
>>>>>>>>>> but for rateup, it's just used by mrtg program itself and has 
>>>>>>>>>> no user interfaces,                 
>>>>>>>>>>                     
>>>>> Sorry for the confusion, it gives the following prompt :
>>>>>
>>>>>    Usage: ./rateup -f <parameter file>
>>>>>           ./rateup directory basename [sampletime] [t sampletime]
>>>>>    [-(t)ransparent] [-(b)order][u|a|g|h|m in out abs_max] [i/p file
>>>>>    maxvi maxvo maxx maxy growright step bits]
>>>>>
>>>>> and the description in rateup.c is:
>>>>>
>>>>>     MRTG 2.16.2  -- Rateup
>>>>>     *********************
>>>>>
>>>>>     Rateup is a fast add-on to the great MRTG Traffic monitor.  It 
>>>>> makes
>>>>>     the database file updates much faster, and creates the graphic 
>>>>> image
>>>>>     files, ready for processing by PPMTOGIF.  It also reduces memory
>>>>>     requirements by a factor of 10, and increases the speed of updates
>>>>>     by a factor of at least 10.  This makes it feasible to run mrtg
>>>>>     every 5 minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>>     rateup attempts to compensate for missed updates by repeating 
>>>>> the last
>>>>>     sample, and also tries to catch bad update times.  The .log 
>>>>> file stores
>>>>>     real history every five minutes for 31 hours, then 'compresses' 
>>>>> the
>>>>>     history into 30 minute samples for a week, then 2-hour samples for
>>>>>     31 days, then daily samples for two years.  This ensures that the
>>>>>     log files don't grow in size.
>>>>>
>>>>>     The log files are a slightly different format, but convert.perl
>>>>>     will fix that for you.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Enjoy!
>>>>>     Dave Rand
>>>>>     dlr at bungi.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it enough for an brief manpage if it's necessary to put the 
>>>>> command rrateup into /usr/bin/ ?
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>>>>>>>> also there are no such details from the source code and 
>>>>>>>>>> website, should the manpage be added for it ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>>>                     
>>>>>>>>> It sounds like rateup is a project private interface, so
>>>>>>>>> no man page is needed.
>>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>> Just a thought - if it's a private interface should it be in 
>>>>>>>> /usr/bin (ie. picked up by the default PATH)?
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> It would be nice if it didn't have to be.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lizhong,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there anyway to configure where rateup is located?
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> or less cleanly, you might be able to patch it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> paul
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>   
>>>       
>
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