Bug 163366 - Wrong explanation in man page
Summary: Wrong explanation in man page
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: logrotate
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Peter Vrabec
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-15 14:39 UTC by SEKINE Tatsuo
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-08-01 12:48:35 UTC
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Description SEKINE Tatsuo 2005-07-15 14:39:27 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
There is an example in the manpage:
       /var/log/news/news.crit {
           monthly
       (snip)

However, the explanation of this example is:
  The last section defines the parameters for all of the files in
  \fI/var/log/news\fR. Each file is
  (snip)

This description is not correct for the example.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logrotate-3.7.1-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man logrotate


Additional info:

Comment 1 SEKINE Tatsuo 2005-07-15 14:46:54 UTC
When this bug is fixed, please fix it in the CVS repository of logrotate.
Because this bug is not Fedora/RH specific.

Comment 2 SEKINE Tatsuo 2005-07-17 10:21:31 UTC
There is another reference to the example in the description of the
shareedscripts option:

  (snip)
  ple  times for log file entries which match multiple files (such
  as the /var/log/news/* example). If sharedscript  is  specified,
  (snip)


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