On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Guy Harris wrote: > > Tcpdump is normally an administrative command. > > Perhaps, perhaps not. > > You don't need administrative privileges to run it, although you might > need them in order to *capture* using it.
Well, you don't need administrative privileges to run, say, `nslookup', yet it resides in $(sbindir) as it is normally run by administators only. And obviously it has its man page in section #8 like $(sbindir) binaries do normally. > Somebody who isn't an administrator might run it on a capture file that > somebody's sent to them. Of course, but that's an administrative task anyway. You don't expect normal users (say an office clerk or a graphic artist) to perform such actions, do you? > > Thus I believe its manual page should reside in section #8. > > That's not the case on all UNIXes; on some UNIXes, if it were an > administrative command, it'd reside in section 1m. Hmm, my observation so far is most systems use section 8 and the ones using other sections are exceptions rather than a rule. Anyway its you who is the maintainer and you have full rights to disagree. I may live with the patch -- it's not much painful to maintain. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available + - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
