On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 03:51:25PM +0000, Iain M Conochie wrote: > > On 02/11/14 05:58, Carl Fink wrote: > >On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 14:17 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>Succinct! > >> > >>man pam_umask? > >That is not a solution to the original question I asked, unless you > >alias it to man umask. You don't _type_ pam_umask. > > > >Carl > Perhaps apropos is your friend here? > > :$ apropos umask > pam_umask (8) - PAM module to set the file mode creation mask
As I said in the original, I found it almost immediately. However, doesn't the Debian policy manual require a man page for every program? Wouldn't that lead users to try the man system to get help on every command, since a new or non-technical user would have no way to know that umask or read or fg is not a "program" but a personality of Bash? So why _not_ have a man page for them? -- Carl Fink [email protected] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
