https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80311 Bug ID: 80311 Summary: Man page for /etc/hosts is inadequate Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: root@xxxxxxxxx Regression: No I am editing a /etc/hosts file and hence reading the man page. I have noticed two issues. 1: I wish to associate at least two host names with one IP number. (killmartha.com and worik.org to start with). It is not clear in the man page if I should use two lines: IP_address1 hostname1 IP_address1 hostname2 or IP_address1 hostname1 hostname2 In the second case hostname2 would be an alias for hostname1. From reading the man page I am guessing I use two lines but it is not clear. 2: canonical_hostname is not defined in the document. (I am fairly sure I know what it is but it should be defined in the document that uses it) and alias is defined but it is not clear from the definition if it can be used in the one line case above. I am confident I can sort this out for myself. If so I can write what I think should be added to the man page if any one agrees with me that this is a problem. Worik -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
