Simple question
Louis LeBlanc
FreeBSD at keyslapper.net
Wed Jul 6 19:58:06 GMT 2005
On 07/06/05 03:45 PM, Efren Bravo sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD
> Handbook and there I always find this references:
>
> sendmail(8)
> sshd(8)
> /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers
This refers to the manpage section that would describe the utilitiy in
question. For instance, the sendmail(8) manpage can be accessed with
the following:
man 8 sendmail
If you omit the '8' you will get the sendmail manpage from section 1
of the manpages, which describes (if you have postfix installed,
anyway) the postfix to sendmail compatibility interface.
To see what each section focuses on, see:
man <section #> intro
Also, you might find the following of interest:
man man
man apropos
HTH
Lou
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