Re: Man page typo/omission

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Hi Rick

The groupadd(8) package is not in the man-pages set. See
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/man_pages_other.html

Cheers,

Michael

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Rick Giles <lord_beavis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Whilst looking through the man page GROUPADD(8), there is information missing from the 'Caveats' section in the sentence "Groupnames may only be up to characters long."  I believe the 32 is missing.
>
> I could not find the man pages version using the instructions at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/what_version.html resulted in:
>
> # rpm -qf $(man -w 8 groupadd)
> file /usr/man/cat8/groupadd.8.xz is not owned by any package
> error: file /home/rick/(<--: No such file or directory
> error: file /usr/man/man8/groupadd.8.gz): No such file or directory
>
> A quick Google search wasn't very helpful either.
>
>
> The system is Slackware 13.37.0 and has recently been updated using 'slackpkg'.
>
> Linux flexo 2.6.37.6-smp #2 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:39:07 CDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> Please let me know if there is anything you would like me to test or try.
>
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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