On Monday 03 November 2008 20:08:12 Randy McMurchy wrote: > Juan A. Moreno wrote these words on 11/03/08 12:52 CST: > > What man pages are better? > > I would prefer to use the Shadow man pages. IMO, it's better to use > man pages from the native package rather than the generic ones from > the man-pages package. > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] > 13:07:00 up 17:42, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.36, 0.19
I have compared the content of both versions of man pages. In the case of passwd.5 their contents are diferent but similar, but look at the contents in the case of getspnam.3. The version from shadow: juan [ ~/shadow-4.1.2.1/man ]$ cat getspnam.3 .so man3/shadow.3 The version from man-pages: juan [ ~/man-pages-3.11/man3 ]$ cat getspnam.3 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Andries Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and .\" Walter Harms ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .\" .\" Distributed under GPL .\" .TH GETSPNAM 3 2008-07-09 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getspnam, getspnam_r, getspent, getspent_r, setspent, endspent, fgetspent, fgetspent_r, sgetspent, sgetspent_r, putspent, lckpwdf, ulckpwdf \- get shadow password file entry .SH SYNOPSIS .nf /* General shadow password file API */ .br .B #include <shadow.h> .sp .BI "struct spwd *getspnam(const char *" name ); .sp .B struct spwd *getspent(void); .sp .B void setspent(void); .sp ..... ..... The shadow version doesn't seem like a man page at all. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
