help with manual sections
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Mar 24 14:38:44 EST 2000
With sudo 1.6.3 I finally added support for substituting the correct
manual sections in the man pages. For BSD systems, sudo and visudo
are in section 8 and sudoers is in section 5. For SYSV systems,
sudo and visudo are in section 1m and sudoers is in section 4.
Now, I could use some help in filling in the blanks. The default
is to use BSD-style sections. Currently, the following system types
(as reported by config.guess) will use SYSV style sections. If
anyone can add to this list or offer corrections, that would be great.
*-*-solaris2*
*-*-hiuxmpp*
*-*-hpux*
*-*-irix*
*-*-riscos*
*-*-isc*
*-*-sco*
*-*-sysv*
Digital UNIX (now Tru64 UNIX) is a bit different. It uses section
8 for superuser/maintenance commands (BSD-style) but section 4 for
file formats (SYSV-style).
- todd
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