NetBSD Problem Report #2481

From gnats  Wed May 29 11:06:38 1996
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:56:14 +0100 (BST)
From: david@mono.org
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: 'man ppp' should give the 'pppd' man page.
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>Number:         2481
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       'man ppp' should give the 'pppd' man page.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    explorer
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 29 11:20:01 +0000 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 10 20:43:27 +0000 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 10 21:25:04 +0000 1996
>Originator:     David Brownlee
>Release:        1.1B
>Organization:
Monochrome (http://www.mono.org)
>Environment:

System: NetBSD orwell.southern.net 1.1B NetBSD 1.1B (_SUN4C_) #0: Tue Apr 2 08:44:20 PST 1996 david@orwell.southern.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/_SUN4C_ sparc


>Description:
	'man slip' gives the man page for slattach - 'man ppp' should
	give the 'pppd' man page.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Naively man ppp, and believe NetBSD does not support it :)
>Fix:
	Add the following to usr.sbin/pppd/Makefile
	MLINKS= pppd.8 ppp.8
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: cgd@UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU, david@mono.org
Subject: Re: bin/2481: 'man ppp' should give the 'pppd' man page.
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:48:42 -0400

 Since 'ppp' is a the name of the PPP pseudo-device, it should have an
 entry in section 4 (which would probably refer to the pppd manual
 page).

 (Similarly, since 'sl' is the name of the SLIP pseudo-device, there
 should be an sl(4).)

 I'm going to file PRs mentioning lack of those pages.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: explorer 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 10 16:43:27 EDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
added ppp(4) and sl(4) which reference the right places. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: bin-bug-people->explorer 
Responsible-Changed-By: explorer 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Aug 10 16:43:27 EDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I added the man pages. 
>Unformatted:

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