Bug 890718

Summary:	man dd has an error regarding kill vs pkill man cron is in error also
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	rmknox <knox>
Component:	about-fedora	Assignee:	Paul W. Frields <stickster>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Karsten Wade <kwade>
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Version:	devel	CC:	me, zach
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Description rmknox 2012-12-29 03:56:34 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11
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man dd says that if you run dd as a background task, to see its progress type

kill -USR1 dd

in fact on fedora 17 pkill is needed instead of kill

also man cron tells how cron is started using init files - which was accurate up till fedora 14

since fedora 15 this description is no longer accurate

a new technique is used to start cron

cron is started 



Reproducible: Always




It is not clear to me where to report this - but my fedora comes with this man material and in these 2  cases it does not describe the operation of fedora 17

Comment 1 Pete Travis 2013-01-02 00:03:53 UTC

You should file bugs against the packages that provide the manpages in error. Use `yum provides /path/to/file` as needed to identify the package.