Re: late pppoe address

On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > This is current/amd64 on an APU2. > The egress is XDSL pppoe(4) over vlan(4) over em(4), > as is the case with many European dialup telecoms. > > The connection itself works just fine (after some mss woes), > but it takes some time to ge

Re: [patch] calendar.music: Neil Peart 1952-2020

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 02:42:15PM -0700, Matthew J. C. Clarke wrote: > committed, thanks. jmc > Index: usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music,v > retrieving re

Re: [patch] calendar.music: Neil Peart 1952-2020

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:31:34AM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: > > Matthew J. C. Clarke writes: > > > 01/08 Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, > > 1935 > > This caught my eye, being from Mississippi myself. > > As far as I know or can tell from searching online, there

Re: Tunefs(8)

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 04:05:12PM +, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it. > there's always a need for humour! i think that sentence is an important part of the tunefs(8) man page (and no, i'm not being sarcastic). > Add the units used

Re: man tar

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:05:48PM +, Roderick wrote: > > We read there: > > " > -f archive > > Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to > hyphen (?-?) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment > variable. > > "" > > Well, hyphen (?-?) m

Re: man netstart(8) OpenBSD-6.8

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 09:42:39AM +0100, Rachel Roch wrote: > > 25 Oct 2020, 01:25 by dera...@openbsd.org: > > > Rachel Roch wrote: > > > >> Is it just me or is the man entry for??netstart(8) missing a reference to > >> wg(4) ? > >> > > > > ... and 300 other network interfaces. > > > > In othe

Re: man netstart(8) OpenBSD-6.8

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:16:54AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > whereas /etc/netstart is actually doing: > > > > - configure non-physical: (1) > > aggr trunk svlan vlan carp pppoe > > - routing

Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Tim Kuijsten wrote: > minor inconsistency > > diff --git a/tcpdump.8 b/tcpdump.8 > index ce16951..8c2cf33 100644 > --- a/tcpdump.8 > +++ b/tcpdump.8 > @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ end of this connection. > .Ar window > is the number of bytes of receive buffer s

Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Tim Kuijsten wrote: > > > minor inconsistency > > > > > > diff --git a/tcpdump.8 b/tcpdump.8 > > > ind

Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Tim Kuijsten wrote: > minor inconsistency > > diff --git a/tcpdump.8 b/tcpdump.8 > index ce16951..8c2cf33 100644 > --- a/tcpdump.8 > +++ b/tcpdump.8 > @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ end of this connection. > .Ar window > is the number of bytes of receive buffer s

Re: minor tcpdump.8 inconsistency

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:08:12PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Tim Kuijsten wrote: > > > > minor inconsistency >

Re: axe(4) success with 'Delock Gigabit USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter, "ASIX chipset"' (w/ manual patch)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:30:17PM +0100, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > [not subscribed, please Cc, thanks.] > > Haai, > > Mewas actually looking for a Cardbus adapter, but availability issues > made me have to go with USB again... at least it works :) > > > axe0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 int

Re: axe(4) success with 'Delock Gigabit USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter, "ASIX chipset"' (w/ manual patch)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 06:12:12PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: i committed this without the asix chipset part. for future reference: > > > > Index: src/share/man/man4/axe.4 > > === > > RCS file: /cvs/sr

Re: spamDB - blacklist mode

On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 04:46:11AM +, s...@skolma.com wrote: > Boudewijn, > Thank you for your reply, and clarification. > > The man pages for SPAMD and SPAMDB do not directly state this relationship / > behavior, and therefore I had made the assumption that spamd would capture > and feed al

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:14:09AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, at 03:53 AM, Mikael wrote: > > >> which FS types are available in the disklabel tool? > > The list is in the header file /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h, > static char *fstypenames[] > > I don't think this

Re: diff man page typo

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:47:20AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > In the 'Output Style' section, the diff man page says > > "XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which > line the change would bring file1 in line with file1." > > I think what is meant is

Re: ftp-proxy man page out of date?

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:35:43PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Would it be possible to update ftp-proxy(8) wrt "divert-to"? > I had the impression that rdr-to is out of date in this > context; see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade50.html. > > Thanx very much. Best season's greeti

Re: [DIFF] New Year's calendar

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:46:53PM +, Craig Skinner wrote: > Happy Hogmanay/New Year! > > Scotland & New Zealand have an additional New Year's celebrations > hangover recovery public holiday. > > In Scotland, Hogmanay is THE most significant winter festival, with > internationally popular str

Re: [DIFF] New Year's calendar

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:11:58PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:46:53PM +, Craig Skinner wrote: > > Happy Hogmanay/New Year! > > > > Scotland & New Zealand have an additional New Year's celebrations > > hangover recovery

Re: [DIFF] New Year's calendar

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:40:13PM +, Mark Carroll wrote: > On 04 Jan 2016, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > traditionally the 2nd was described as a bank holiday. now banks are > > open on this day. some businesses shut. > > It still is a bank holiday, see > https

Re: [DIFF] New Year's calendar

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:33:56PM +, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > +04/01 April Fool's Day > > This I'm not entirely sure of but both Google and Wikipedia use plural > possessive - "April Fools' Day". > oxford style manual notes "Fool's" (singular) as being of US in origin, and "Fools'" as UK

Re: man netstart(8) OpenBSD-6.8

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:41:26PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:16:54AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > > > whereas /etc/netstart is actually doing: > > > > > > - configure non-physical:

Re: Suggestion for small improvement in acme-client.conf.5

On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 05:08:14PM +0100, Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I have small suggestion for improving man page for acme-client.conf.5. > Basically just adding "comma separated" to clarify on the format of the > list for alternative names. I had to dig into the parser.y to figure > this out, so

Re: Speed: dump/restore vs rsync

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 09:40:40PM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 03:11:07PM -0300, vitmau...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I used the command "cd /SRC && dump 0f - . | (cd /DST && restore -rf - )" > > as suggested by the "Disk Setup" section of the FAQ to transfer every

Re: IPv6 with umb(4)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Julian Huhn wrote: > Moin! > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 04:24:48PM +0200, Julian Huhn wrote: > >I tried unsuccessfully to obtain an IPv6 address with an umb(4) interface. > >As > >umb(4) supports IPv6 since 6.7, I seem to be doing something wrong. Can >

Re: 7.5 /var/log/messages - vfprintf %s NULL in "%.*s"

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 02:25:04AM +, Jeremy Mates wrote: > TL;DR it's TERMINFO related or when ~/.terminfo exists and no TERM file > exists therein. Also trying to read "none" (or maybe also "none.db" when > the TERMINFO thing happens) from the current working directory might not > be a good i

Re: fw_update

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:55:33PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 2024-04-30 13:25:39, ?? wrote: > > 24/04/30 01:12PM, Kirill A. Korinsky : > >> You may download it by hand and install as fw_update /path/to/firmware.tgz > > > > BTW, this is in fw_upd

Re: necessity to specify CVSROOT each time cvs is run?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 09:26:40AM +0200, rsyk...@disroot.org wrote: > Dear list, > > > I have a ports tree. (Most probably first obtained > by downloading a .tar file.) I am able to update it > with, e.g., > > ; CVSROOT=anon...@ftp.hostserver.de:/cvs > ; cvs -d $CVSROOT -q up -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_1

Re: afterboot(8), documentation and wscons

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:26:39PM +, Micha?l Dupont wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently installed and configured OpenBSD on a laptop ??? works great! > > However, as a new user, I had trouble finding out about wscons(4), > and that I can use wsconsctl(8) for common laptop configuration > su

Re: A minimal browser in base

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > > Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an > assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a > general-purpose system administrators manual. > > I guess people didn't wa

Re: Old Unix manuals (was: Re: A minimal browser in base)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:54:40PM -0400, luna wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:04:55 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > hi. > > > > we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date > > and there wasn;t really the resources (or motivation) to u

Re: Mention _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED in curs_addwstr.3

hi. just committed by nicm: List: openbsd-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src From: Nicholas Marriott Date: 2022-10-10 8:57:10 Message-ID: 4f7d42a92ccdbaf3 () cvs ! openbsd ! org [Download RAW message or body] CVSROOT:/cvs Module name:src Changes by: n...@cvs.openbsd.org20

Re: Unimplemented httpd socket? (/var/run/httpd.sock)

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 10:17:20PM -0400, Dante Catalfamo wrote: > Hey, > > I was reading the httpd(8) and noticed that there's a reference to a > socket located at `/var/run/httpd.sock'. It says it's a "UNIX-domain > socket used for communication with httpd". I was hoping maybe it would > be used

Re: Slight Confusion with ntpd(8)

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 05:12:12AM +, indivC wrote: > I'm a little confused with the man page for ntpd. > > For the '-n' flag, it says: > 'Configtest mode. Only check the configuration file for validity.'. > I have no problem with this and understand it. > > However, the section below that,

Re: Slight Confusion with ntpd(8)

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 07:48:39AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 05:12:12AM +, indivC wrote: > > > I'm a little confused with the man page for ntpd. > > > > For the '-n' flag, it says: > > 'Configtest mode. Only check the configuration file for validity.'. > > I have

Re: less prints superfluous characters with --no-init

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 08:09:13PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > On 2022-11-20, Reuben mac Saoidhea wrote: > > > > >> It is a builtin, so it is documented inside ksh. > > > > > > i think the 4.3BSD manual allowed for example

Re: Documentation of wsconsctl keyboard.map format?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:21:26AM +0100, Mike Fischer wrote: > Hi! > > I???m trying to use a German Apple Mac keyboard with OpenBSD 7.2 and I???d > like to match the mapping to that of macOS. > > `wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=de` helps, but several mappings are > different/missing. For example

Re: less prints superfluous characters with --no-init

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:31:57PM +1059, Reuben mac Saoidhea wrote: > i hate to harp on about it, but: > > in case you happen to discover the `command' command, > beware that its description in sh(1) is wrong. > > sh(1) says: > command -vV command args ... > actually openbsd's sh(1) page

Re: Use daily(8), weekly(8), or monthly(8) but read less mail

On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 09:56:03AM +, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: > I want to use the altroot facility, but I don't want to read the mails > about the the backup succeeding and nothing else failing. > > Reading the scripts and the manual pages, I see no support for sending > the daily, weekly, o

Re: old UNIX documentation

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:46:54PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > On Sep 13 07:04:55, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote: > > > Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an > > > assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a > > > general-purpose system administrators manu

Re: Questions about man gcc-local

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 10:22:51PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023-03-02, Stanislav Syekirin > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > is the man page for gcc-local > > (https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-7.2/gcc-local) up to date? It > > mentions, for example, i386, but OpenBSD 7.2 on i386 doesn't se

Re: A type in the man page for re_format

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 06:24:46PM +, Peter Fraser wrote: > [[:>:]] > Anchors the single character regular expression or subexpression > immediately following it to the end of a word. > > Should say > > [[:>:]] > Anchors the single character regular ex

Re: /var/cache/fontconfig ??

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:43:45PM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't found any comment in hier(7) about /var/cache and > there seems to be only dir - 'fontconfig'. > > I'm not sure how this directory was created, probably during > install of the xbaseXX set. > > Shouldn't this in /var/

Re: /var/cache/fontconfig ??

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:02:55AM +0100, Nigel Taylor wrote: > On 06/09/13 00:03, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:43:45PM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I haven't found any comment in hier(7) about /var/cache and >

Re: /var/cache/fontconfig ??

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:06:01AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > >Sorry but this seems to bizzare to make 'cache' appropriate > >subdir in /var just because of one specific tool. Wouldn't be > >better to customize it to use /var/db/fontconfig? > > Ahh, on other machine there's also 'cups' and 'libvirt' :

Re: /var/cache/fontconfig ??

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:14:03AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-06-09, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:06:01AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > >> >Sorry but this seems to bizzare to make 'cache' appropriate > >> >subdir in /var

Re: man(7) leftovers

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:30:43AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > The base manpages have been rewritten from man(7) to mdoc(7) > some time ago, but it seems this has been left in scan_ffs(8): > > Index: scan_ffs.8 > === > RCS file: /cvs/sr

Re: author emails in manpages

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:04:03PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Authors' emails in manpages are generally written as .e.g. > > .An Damien Miller Aq d...@openbsd.org > > Should these be like > > .An Damien Miller Aq Mt d...@openbsd.org > > ? > perhaps. either Mt is fairly new, or i ne

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:53:04PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Some of the manpages, e.g. crontab(1), > markup the folklore phrase > > named file, or standard input > if the pseudo-filename `-' is given > > as > > named file, or standard input > if the pseudo-filename >

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:34:53PM +0200, J??r??mie Courr??ges-Anglas wrote: > Jason McIntyre writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:53:04PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > >> Some of the manpages, e.g. crontab(1), > >> markup the folklore phrase > >>

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:53:38PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > for oldrdist, "-" is actually the argument to -f. so it's not an option, > > as far as i can see. just the manual seems to blur things by documenting > > "If either the -f or `-' option is not specified", whereas above, the > > tex

Re: author emails in manpages

ok, but watch out for the spurious scan_ffs change. jmc On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 15 23:23:57, h...@stare.cz wrote: > > Here is a diff for /usr/src/usr.bin: > > Here is another for usr/src/sbin; > while in there, remove a forgotten > man(7) line from scan

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:36:32AM +0200, J??r??mie Courr??ges-Anglas wrote: > >> > >> Fl may seem wrong because we're talking about an argument, but I don't > >> think a bare `-' (a hyphen) would be better. We're talking about an > >> ascii minus sign here; mandoc_char(7) says a minus sign can b

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:38:42AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > Index: oldrdist.1 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1,v > retrieving revision 1.20 > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.20 oldrdist.1 > --- oldrdist.13 Sep 20

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:50:14AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 16 07:52:50, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote: > > for oldrdist, i also > > used Sq instead of Dq for "-". > > It uses .Dq everywhere else. > For consistency, should we replace them all with .Sq? > no. what we tend to do is use Sq for s

Re: mdoc(7) tabs in non-literal context

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:24:49AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > The following replaces explicit tabs with Dl > and explicit braces with Brq > > > Index: dhcpd.conf.5 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.5,v > retrieving

Re: remove mandoc-skipped Pp and Ns

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:11:54AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > mandoc -Tlint reveals that some of the Pp and Ns are skipped anyway. > Reword slightly to get rid of the parantheses > that required the Ns in the first place. > > fixed, thanks. i tweaked it a little. jmc Index: libc/net/getrrsetbyna

Re: mdoc(7) .Sq Fl for a dash

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:42:13PM +0200, J??r??mie Courr??ges-Anglas wrote: > > \- is afaik treated correctly in all the cases I described above, except > for a very small number of groff versions, when in an UTF-8 locale or > using ps/pdf (there you can get an unicode minus sign). This case was

Re: pfctl manpage.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 09:22:54AM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: > From 'man pfctl': > When the variable pf is set to YES in rc.conf.local(8), the rule file > specified with the variable pf_rules is loaded automatically by the > rc(8) > scripts and the packet filter is enabled. > > I think pf is

Re: rcs mandoc nits

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > This is small diff to the manpages in /usr/src/usr.bin/rcs > What is the advantage of using '\*(Lt' instead of '<' ? > Is that advantage also valid for things like \*(Ltstdio.h\*(Gt ? > All the other '<'s and '>'s are typed literally ...

Re: yacc(1) LALR reference

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:01:44PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > This diff to yacc(1) adds a reference to the original LALR(1) paper. > I am not sure about the markup, as mandoc render it as > > F. DeRemer and T. J. Pennello, "Efficient Computation of LALR(1) > Look-Ahead Sets", 4, TOPLAS, 4

Re: yacc(1) mandoc nits

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:49:27PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Tha yacc(1) manpage uses > > .Tn LALR(1) > .Tn LR(1) > > I don't think LALR or LR is a tradename. > This seems to be what mdoc(7) describes as: > > Since this macro is often implemented to use a small caps >

Re: assorted mdoc(7) nits

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:04:30PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Reading the shorter manpages in .../man1/ > as an excercise while learning mdoc(7), > I made this little diff of assorted typos, > forgotten ".Pa"s. missing ".Mt"s and such. > thanks for these. i've committed most, with some exceptions

Re: infnan.3 not installed

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:13:25PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > We have /usr/src/lib/libm/man/infnan.3 > but infnan(3) doesn't seem to be installed > on any system I looked at. Is that intended? > > Jan > man -k should give you a clue... jmc

Re: unnecessary quotes in .Nd lines

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Some manpages use one-line descriptions such as > > .Nd "VAX console interface" > > The double quotes, if I am not mistaken, are unnecessary; > the diff below removes them throughout the tree. > (Were these required at some point

Re: unnecessary quotes in .Nd lines

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:37:48PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Aug 13 17:30:37, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > Some manpages use one-line descriptions such as > > > > > > .Nd "VAX console interface" > > > > > > The double quotes,

Re: unnecessary quotes in .Nd lines

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:30:37PM +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > Some manpages use one-line descriptions such as > > > > .Nd "VAX console interface" > > > > The double quotes, if I am

Re: Use .Bx instead of BSD in manpages

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:59:13PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > The diff below replaces the occurences of "BSD" > in the manpages with the .Bx macro where appropriate. > (Some might be overkill though.) > > Specifically, it does not put .Bx inside .%T lines and the like, > e.g. ".%T Design and Implem

Re: dump(8): unify grammar of both 'file system(s)' & 'filesystem(s)'

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:34:51PM +0100, Craig R. Skinner wrote: > The existing grammar is erratic: > > $ fgrep filesystem dump.8 | wc -l > 15 > $ fgrep 'file system' dump.8 | wc -l > 6 > erratic, you say? $ grep -i "filesystem" restore.8 | wc -l 0 $ grep -i

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:17:24AM +0200, Zeljko Jovanovic wrote: > I was just reading some random man pages, and noticed a few places > where "Mb" should probably be changed to "MB", since the intended > meaning is Megabytes, not Megabits. > > In the base system, these are sort(1) and ld(1). I ha

Re: xfs still in heir(7)

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:43:42PM +1000, Brett Mahar wrote: > Hi Misc, > > Since xfs is in the attic, should it be removed from the hier(7) man page? > > Brett. > yes, and i've just done it. thanks for the mail, jmc > Index: src/share/man/man7/hier.7 >

Re: GCC 2.95 mention in intro(3)

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:03:01PM +1000, Brett Mahar wrote: > Hi misc, > > I think the GCC 2.95 line is no longer relevant. > > This time I remember to: > ok? > yes, ok ;) jmc > Brett. > > > Index: src/share/man/man3/intro.3 >

Re: i386_set_ioperm and machdep.allowaperture

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:24:31PM +1000, Paul Kelly wrote: > Dear list, > > Here's a manpage diff for i386_get_ioperm(2) to reflect the > behaviour I have observed (see below diff). Please whack me with a > stick if I have made any obvious mistakes. > > diff below committed. mark kettenis advi

Re: rcsfile(5)

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:32:25PM -0600, Kyle R W Milz wrote: > Hello misc@, > > Was reading through rcs manual pages and came across a reference to > rcsfile(5) in the rcscan(1) and rcscmp(1) SEE ALSO sections however I > can't seem to find it. > > Am I dense or is it missing? > none of these

Re: [patch] src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: JJ Cale 1938-2013

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:45:28PM -0700, Matthew Clarke wrote: > Index: calendar.music > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music,v > retrieving revision 1.27 > diff -u -r1.27 calendar.music > --- calendar.mu

Re: getarg(3)

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:05:29AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > we don;t build libroken, so i'm guessing that getarg.3, parse_time.3, > > and rtbl.3 should not be installed. however i have no idea where to turn > > that stuff off about. > > > > any kerberos people want to pick this up? > >

Re: getarg(3)

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:46:13PM +0100, Floor Terra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > While browsing the manpages for getopt(3), I stumbled upon getarg(3). > > Can someone point me to getarg.h? Even the online manpage[1] can't > > find it[2

Re: man page style question

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:05:48PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > i was just reading ral(4) and rum(4) to look for > devices that support these. i noticed that while > ral(4) lists all the devices in one paragraph, > rum(4) on the other hand lists them one at a line. > > i think i

Re: Postscript versions of MAN files.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:49:31AM -0700, Anathae Townsend wrote: > >From the looks of the /usr/share/man directory, there are provisions > in OpenBSD for postscript versions of the various manual pages for > OpenBSD. > > I have looked, but not exhaustively, in the make files under > /usr/src/sha

Re: nroff -mandoc alternative

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:22:33PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Kristaps DE>onsons wrote: > > > Hello, if anybody's interested in an alternative to groff for viewing > > BSD "mdoc" manual pages, I'm actively looking for patches and problem > > reports for mdocml. From the site

Re: small bug report for pf(4)

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:10:29PM -0400, bofh wrote: > Should the "SEE ALSO" section include "pf.conf(5)"? > yes, i think that's reasonbable. now fixed in -current. jmc

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:56:54AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > this is for the dying breed of fdisk gurus... > prepare some snacks, it's long. > i think nick covered your points pretty well, but just to follow up, we did find a need for some changes, so i've included those changes below (n

ssd drive disappears when booting

hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here... i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop. it ran fine for a few hours, but on a subsequent reboot the disk (an ssd) seemed to disappear: ... softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets

Re: ssd drive disappears when booting

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:23:44AM +, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: > On February 16, 2019 6:41:49 PM UTC, Jason McIntyre > wrote: > >hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here... > > > >i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop. > &

Re: ifconfig AF

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 09:42:17PM -0600, Alfred Morgan wrote: > I ran the command ifconfig re0 autoconf and found an error message saying > "autoconf not allowed for this AF" and it took me some time searching to > figure out what "AF" meant. After I found out that it meant "address > family" I us

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 01:05:54PM -0600, Alfred Morgan wrote: > There are two formats you can write options in and the man page does not > mention format 2. > > format 1: > tls key "/etc/ssl/private/server.key" > tls certificate "/etc/ssl/server.crt" > > format 2: > tls { > key "/etc/ssl/pri

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 03:46:25PM -0600, Alfred Morgan wrote: > jmc wrote: > > i think if you attached a diff to your mail, no matter how poorly > > written, you would have a better chance of something happening. > > How does this sound? > A specified option may be written inside curly brackets i

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:03:36PM -0500, Alfred Morgan wrote: >jmc wrote on? 2019-03-05 6:58:38: >> > How does this sound? >> > A specified option may be written inside curly brackets in order to >specify >> > a block of one or more specified options. >>? >> regarding y

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:59:30AM -0700, Evan Silberman wrote: > > > > On Mar 10, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > > +Directives which take multiple > > +.Ar option > > +values may themselves be grouped in curly brackets. > > I think th

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:29:41PM -0700, Evan Silberman wrote: > Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > > Index: httpd.conf.5 > > === > > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.conf.5,v > > retrieving r

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:24:40AM -0500, Alfred Morgan wrote: >httpd uses the configuration processor that relayd uses so I was >curious to see how this block of sub options were explained in >relayd.conf(5) and interestingly enough this is not explained there >either but there are

Re: man httpd.conf option does not mention option blocks

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:31:39AM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:24:40AM -0500, Alfred Morgan wrote: > >httpd uses the configuration processor that relayd uses so I was > >curious to see how this block of sub options were explained in > >

Re: Infinite spin when trying to burn a CD

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:45:40PM +0100, J??r??me FRGACIC wrote: > Thanks for all your replies. > > > it means the optcode does alllow or prevent media removal it depends on > > the prevent bits in the cdb but you basically just have a 00 for allow > > or a 01 for prevent in the cdb. Anyway sinc

Re: sh : COMMAND LINE EDITING when relevant?

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 04:32:00PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Rudolf, hi Jason, > > Rudolf Sykora wrote on Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:34:31PM +0200: > > Ingo Schwarze writes: > >> Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > >>> after reading the sh man page I have been wondering: > >>> When is the line editing

Re: Prefered manpage idioms?

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:16:12PM +1000, Stephen Gregoratto wrote: > When I'm writing new manpages, I like to draw inspiration from the > documentation of similar programs. The problem is that many manpages > have different ways of saying the same thing, probably due to their > authors and time pe

Re: Prefered manpage idioms?

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:09:58PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > i think any of man page, manual page, or manual is fine. > > > > > 2. Standard output > > > > > > Is it: > > &g

Re: ed(1) man page doesn't mention use of single / and ?

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:47:50PM +0200, ropers wrote: > Do I understand correctly that this is in reference to these parts of man 1 > ed: > > > /re/ > >The next line containing the regular expression re. The search wraps to > > the beginning of the buffer and continues down to the current

Re: calendar(1) entries for Sep 14 & 15

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 07:53:19AM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: > I noticed a couple of minor things in my daily calendar reminder > email to draw someone's attention to: > > > car...@oxford.wistly.net (Reminder Service) writes: > > > Sep 14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first p

Re: minor updates to radiusd.8

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:33:24PM -0400, Rob Pierce wrote: > New diff excluding the history section. > > Rob > fixed, thanks. jmc > Index: radiusd.8 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/radiusd/radiusd.8,v > retrieving revision 1.6

Re: Man page for md5(1)

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:20:05AM +1000, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > For md5(1) (and therefore, sha1(1), sha256(1), sha512(1)), the man page > has this: > > "-q Only print the checksum (quiet mode)." > > Since this has the same behaviour as "cksum -q", would it be best to > keep it i

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >