Bug 995179 - iptables no longer has a useful manpage, describing all modules and their targets
Summary: iptables no longer has a useful manpage, describing all modules and their tar...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: iptables
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-08 17:37 UTC by Samium Gromoff
Modified: 2013-11-25 12:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-11-25 12:35:41 UTC
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Description Samium Gromoff 2013-08-08 17:37:33 UTC
iptables does not have a useful manpage, describing all modules and their targets.

See, for example, the corresponding Debian package.

iptables package version 1.4.18

Comment 1 Quentin Armitage 2013-11-23 21:29:59 UTC
Use man iptables-extensions. This is described in the iptables man page.

Comment 2 Samium Gromoff 2013-11-24 15:16:25 UTC
Alright, sorry for the noise then, I feel like this bug can be closed.

It'd be lovely, though, if the "go to iptables-extensions manpage for
the usual stuff" was noted more prominently.

The reason I'm suggesting this is stemming from how I came to miss these
actually not-that-obscure references.

When you use a certain utility for a _long_ time, you learn its
documentation ins and outs -- and you switch from the "parse the
document" mode to a "grep the document for well-known keywords" mode.

And the grep thing totally failed me, indeed.

So, I think, a bigger, louder "the structure of this document has
changed in significant ways" disclaimer at the start of the manpage
would be helpful for lost souls like me..

Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2013-11-25 12:35:41 UTC
Closing as "NOT A BUG".

BTW: iptables-extensions is referenced in "MATCH AND TARGET EXTENSIONS" and also in "SEE ALSO".


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