Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Daemons are ALWAYS 8 not 1.
I don't see where this is specified, and looking in my own man pages
collection (Mandrake 10/cooker) there are plenty of daemons living in man1.
>From the FHS:
"A description of each section follows:
man1: User programs Manual pages that describe publicly accessible
commands are contained in this chapter. Most program documentation that a user
will need to use is located here.
man5: File formats The formats for many data files are documented in the
section 5. This includes various include files, program output files, and
system files.
man8: System administration Programs used by system administrators for
system operation and maintenance are documented here. Some of these programs
are also occasionally useful for normal users."
The only thing that's clear to me is that we should have a man page for the
config file. Other than that, I can only see it as a tossup between man1 and
man8. man1 makes sense because DBMail is not a *system* program in the same
way that fsck or grub are. man8 makes sense because DBMail isn't intended for
"normal users" but rather only for the mail system admins.
The compelling argument I find is that on a typical DBMail installation, there
are no "normal users" and everyone on the system is a sysadmin. So there's got
to be a break somewhere between the fancy stuff the sysadmin has installed on
the system, like DBMail, and the really key system utlities used to actually
keep the machine running.
Distributions are free to rename the man pages however they want to in their
packages. I think that's a fine solution unless you can document a really
clear and compelling reason to move everything into man8.
Aaron
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