Bug 908295

Summary: man page syslog(3) refers to non-existant syslog.conf
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Thom Carlin <tcarlin>
Component: man-pages-overridesAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.3CC: isenfeld, ovasik, theinric, tlavigne
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ManPageChange, Patch
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Last Closed: 2013-11-21 22:55:45 UTC Type: Bug
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man-pages-3.22-syslog.patch none

Description Thom Carlin 2013-02-06 11:22:33 UTC
Description of problem:

Title says it all

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

6.3 GA

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man 3 syslog
2. man 5 syslog.conf
3.
  
Actual results:

"SEE ALSO
       logger(1), setlogmask(3), syslog.conf(5), syslogd(8)"
"No entry for syslog.conf in section 5 of the manual"

Expected results:

"SEE ALSO
       logger(1), setlogmask(3), rsyslog.conf(5), syslogd(8)"
"RSYSLOG.CONF(5)           Linux System Administration          RSYSLOG.CONF(5)

NAME
       rsyslog.conf - rsyslogd(8) configuration file
[...]"

Additional info:

Simple change for English.  
Please also check /usr/share/man/ja/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz which may need to be updated

Comment 2 Tomas Heinrich 2013-02-06 13:28:29 UTC
$ man -w 5 syslog.conf
No entry for syslog.conf in section 5 of the manual

$ man -w 3 syslog
/usr/share/man/man3/syslog.3.gz

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man3/syslog.3.gz
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch

$ man rsyslogd
<...>
SEE ALSO
       rsyslog.conf(5), logger(1), syslog(2), syslog(3), services(5), savelog(8)

$ man rsyslog.conf
<...>
SEE ALSO
       rsyslogd(8), logger(1), syslog(3)

$ rpm -q rsyslog
rsyslog-5.8.10-2.el6.x86_64

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2013-02-12 06:47:11 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Peter Schiffer 2013-09-20 17:17:41 UTC
Created attachment 800588 [details]
man-pages-3.22-syslog.patch

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 22:55:45 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1695.html