Re: Man pages and synch_resp calls

2006-03-14 Thread Wes Hardaker
Paul> not supposed to be used by users of libnetsnmp? The man page is also, I Paul> think, very unclear with respect to the use of the snmp_sess_read and Paul> how one actually gets the inbound pdu out of it. I think our man pages need a lot of work, and have for a long time. No, the APIs

Man pages and synch_resp calls

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Fleetwood
Hello all, I recently had to work on an SNMP project at my company. While my team was able to get everything working eventually, there were a number of confusing issues surrounding the documentation in the man pages. Is there a reason that the synch_resp calls are not mentioned in the man

Re: man pages installed in /

2006-01-21 Thread Patrick Welche
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:45:03PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:25:12PM -0400, Robert Story wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:48:56 +0100 Patrick wrote: > > PW> There isn't a gamble: the older version don't use datarootdir, so > > PW> all that happens is you end up with

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-14 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:25:12PM -0400, Robert Story wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:48:56 +0100 Patrick wrote: > PW> There isn't a gamble: the older version don't use datarootdir, so > PW> all that happens is you end up with > PW> > PW> datarootdir= > > No, if autoconf hasn't been updated, you

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Story
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:48:56 +0100 Patrick wrote: PW> There isn't a gamble: the older version don't use datarootdir, so PW> all that happens is you end up with PW> PW> datarootdir= No, if autoconf hasn't been updated, you'd end up with [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ and I'm less sure what various versions

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-12 Thread Thomas Anders
Patrick Welche wrote: There isn't a gamble: the older version don't use datarootdir, so all that happens is you end up with datarootdir= in your Makefile :-) Agreed, this was my gut reaction also. But since we supply the generated configure in CVS, there's no general need to use autoconf any

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-12 Thread Patrick Welche
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:42:57PM -0400, Robert Story wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:43:16 +0100 Patrick wrote: > PW> I find I need the attached patch (attached as it includes tabs) to stop > PW> the man pages and mibs from being installed in /. It could be because I > PW>

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-12 Thread Dave Shield
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 17:43 +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > I find I need the attached patch (attached as it includes tabs) to stop > the man pages and mibs from being installed in /. It could be because I > am using fairly new autotools, but it boils down to Makefile containing > &

Re: man pages installed in /

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Story
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:43:16 +0100 Patrick wrote: PW> I find I need the attached patch (attached as it includes tabs) to stop PW> the man pages and mibs from being installed in /. It could be because I PW> am using fairly new autotools, indeed. What versions are you using? I don'

man pages installed in /

2005-10-08 Thread Patrick Welche
I find I need the attached patch (attached as it includes tabs) to stop the man pages and mibs from being installed in /. It could be because I am using fairly new autotools, but it boils down to Makefile containing datarootdir = ${prefix}/share datadir = ${datarootdir} mandir

Re: Man pages

2004-10-16 Thread Alex Burger
Alex Burger wrote: About 45 of the man pages have what appears to be invalid titles. For example, netsnmp_leaf.3 has: .TH "leaf_handlers: process individual leaf objects" 3 "2 Sep 2004" "net-snmp" \" -*- nroff -*- It looks like the man page above was genera

Man pages

2004-10-15 Thread Alex Burger
About 45 of the man pages have what appears to be invalid titles. For example, netsnmp_leaf.3 has: .TH "leaf_handlers: process individual leaf objects" 3 "2 Sep 2004" "net-snmp" \" -*- nroff -*- A 'man netsnmp_leaf' on Linux gives: ***

Re: Man Pages Install

2004-08-16 Thread Coders
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:57:51 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> > I know there has been a thread going on man pages, but with the CVS code DS> > downloaded last night I get the following on make install; DS> [snip] DS> > Maybe that has been fixed. DS> DS> It was fixed on th

Re: Man Pages Install

2004-08-11 Thread Dave Shield
> I know there has been a thread going on man pages, but with the CVS code > downloaded last night I get the following on make install; [snip] > Maybe that has been fixed. It was fixed on the 5.1.x line. I've just applied the same fix to the main development line as well.

Man Pages Install

2004-08-11 Thread Andy Smith
I know there has been a thread going on man pages, but with the CVS code downloaded last night I get the following on make install; make[1]: Entering directory `/home/luser/src/net-snmp-linux/man' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `netsnmp_todo.3', needed by `maninstall'

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-04 Thread Dave Shield
Dave> I'd suggest that the simplest thing would be either to drop these Dave> particular man pages from the distribution, or else have a special Dave> "sed" (or similar) script to paste in the missing formatting. Wes> Well, I doubt we need to install them by de

problems in man pages netsnmp_todo.3

2004-08-04 Thread esr
This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, tell me and I will attempt to correct my database. See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and why these patches were gen

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I note that the "normal" man pages that doxygen spits out look > reasonable (though I'd like to tweak the descriptions at some point). > It's just these "specials" (todo, deprecated and probably bug) that > seem

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Wes Hardaker
>>>>> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:07:55 +0100, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> I'd suggest that the simplest thing would be either to drop these Dave> particular man pages from the distribution, or else have a special Dave> "sed" (or simil

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Dave Shield
this report last week, and even started ploughing through the doxygen source to see how these particular man pages are generated. (Without much luck) I note that the "normal" man pages that doxygen spits out look reasonable (though I'd like to tweak the descriptions at some point)

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Wes Hardaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:32:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > esr> Note: This patch does not change the mod date of the manual page. You > esr> may wish to do that by hand. > > Err... that manual page is auto generated from doxygen. Adding in > the .

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-07-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:32:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: esr> Note: This patch does not change the mod date of the manual page. You esr> may wish to do that by hand. Err... that manual page is auto generated from doxygen. Adding in the .SH token will get it overwritten by future doxyg

problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-07-23 Thread esr
This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, tell me and I will attempt to correct my database. See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and why these patches were gen

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-07-19 Thread Dave Shield
> This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page > for which you appear to be responsible. > Problems with snmpvacm.1: > > 1. Unknown or invalid macro. Thanks for that. The suggested fix has been applied, and should be included in the next release of the software (which is du

problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-07-19 Thread esr
This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, tell me and I will attempt to correct my database. See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and why these patches were gen