docs/65065: improper language ntpd man pages

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Apr 2 17:01:17 UTC 2004


O come now ... let's not take all of the flair and interest out of the man
page!  How about "Not recommended for the faint of heart!"?

It's a shame that we have to be so serious to look professional.  Next thing
you know, the joke will be removed from the end of the tunefs man page :(

-Bill (who thought "not recommended for sissies" was cool)

Marc Silver wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/65065; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Marc Silver <marcs at draenor.org>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: docs/65065: improper language ntpd man pages
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:30:18 +0200
> 
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>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>  Content-Disposition: inline
>  
>  GNATS doesn't seem to like my previous attachment... so here goes again.
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>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="ntpd.8-patch.txt"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>  Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ntpd.8-patch.txt"; size=295
>  
>  --- ntpd.8.orig	Fri Apr  2 11:49:44 2004
>  +++ ntpd.8	Fri Apr  2 11:52:54 2004
>  @@ -152,8 +152,9 @@
>   ID.
>   .It Fl P
>   Override the priority limit set by the operating system.
>  -Not
>  -recommended for sissies.
>  +Using this option is
>  +.Em not
>  +recommended for inexperienced users.
>   .It Fl q
>   Exit the
>   .Nm
>  
>  --==========4698CCCDB4126DAAC5EA==========--
>  
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Bill Moran
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