Bug 501084 - nash is badly documented, half of the builtins are missing in manpage
Summary: nash is badly documented, half of the builtins are missing in manpage
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-15 22:00 UTC by Roland Kletzing
Modified: 2013-03-20 13:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-20 13:51:36 UTC
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Description Roland Kletzing 2009-05-15 22:00:04 UTC
Description of problem:
last week i configured multipath boot for a customer and found the init script to use nash minimalistic script parser on startup. i saw some command like "stabilized" inside and could not find any information for that. i got the sources for nash and take a look inside and it seems the manpage is badly outdated and nearly missing half of the builtin commands of nash.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.1.19.6

How reproducible:
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Actual results:
information missing in manpage

Expected results:
all informatio about nash builtins should be documented in manpage

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Comment 1 Roland Kletzing 2009-05-16 09:01:25 UTC
others need that information, too 

see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1061004

btw, what is the "stabilized" command for and what does it do exactly (including options like --hash) ?

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2013-03-20 13:51:36 UTC
mkinitrd is a dead end at this point, RHEL-6 and later have moved to dracut.


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