Bug 163366 – Wrong explanation in man page

Bug 163366 - Wrong explanation in man page

Summary:	Wrong explanation in man page

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	logrotate (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
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Reported:	2005-07-15 10:39 EDT by SEKINE Tatsuo
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-08-01 08:48:35 EDT
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Description SEKINE Tatsuo 2005-07-15 10:39:27 EDT

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 10:46:54 EDT

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 06:21:31 EDT

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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