docs/68843: Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack.

Chris Pepper pepper at reppep.com
Fri Jul 9 03:50:22 UTC 2004


>Number:         68843
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 09 03:50:21 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004 root at guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5 i386


	
>Description:
	The manual pages for rc & rc.subr have very strange dates.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Look at the last line of the rc & rc.subr manual pages on a variety of recent systems, including the web site:

pepper at www:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004     root at www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP  i386
pepper at www:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                    January 6, 2004                   FreeBSD 4.10
pepper at www:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                   December 11, 1993                  FreeBSD 4.10

pepper at guest:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004     root at guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5  i386
pepper at guest:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1 
FreeBSD 5.2.1                   April 18, 2002                   FreeBSD 5.2.1
pepper at guest:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 5.2.1                  November 4, 2002                  FreeBSD 5.2.1

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                    April 18, 2002                    FreeBSD 4.10
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                   November 4, 2002                   FreeBSD 4.10
	And the hypertext man pages can't find rc.subr(8) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE or FreeBSD 4.10-stable, which is illogical since the manual page with no version specification claims to be from 4.10:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html

	
>Fix:
	Reconcile the date lines (or entities?) used for manual page versions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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