The wording of ifconfig DIAGNOSTICS can possibly baffle
a non-native speaker (such as me) with
Messages indicating the specified interface does not exist,
namely, only after parsing the (non)sentence does one realize
that the diagnostics consists of messages indicating THAT
the interface does not exist etc.
As the paragraph does not list the messages (surely there are many),
this really boils down to mentioning that ifconfig does indeed have
diagnostic messages.
I believe nothing would be lost
if this paragraph was deleted.
Jan
Index: ifconfig.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v
retrieving revision 1.319
diff -u -p -r1.319 ifconfig.8
--- ifconfig.8 8 Sep 2018 15:21:03 -0000 1.319
+++ ifconfig.8 22 Oct 2018 06:35:01 -0000
@@ -1871,10 +1871,6 @@ Create the gif1 network interface:
Put the athn0 wireless interface into monitor mode:
.Pp
.Dl # ifconfig athn0 mediaopt monitor
-.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
-Messages indicating the specified interface does not exist, the
-requested address is unknown, or the user is not privileged and
-tried to alter an interface's configuration.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
