Bug 25420

Summary:	man page missing important information.
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	adriel <adriel>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	dd <dd>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description adriel 2001-02-27 19:50:01 UTC

	the man snp and man watch pages neglect to mention you have to add device snp to your kernel makefile and rebuild a custom kernel, and no referenced are made from the man watch page to any document that mentions device snp.

Comment 1 ben freebsd_committer

2001-03-29 02:12:38 UTC

Would it be enough just to change the first sentence to say:

        Watch allows the superuser to examine all data coming through a
        specified tty, using the snp(4) device.

That at least gets the reference to snp(4) where you're more likely to see
it.

Or would you rather it also said something like

        Note that the snp(4) device is not in the default kernel so you
        must build a custom kernel in order to use watch(8).

?

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Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer

2001-08-21 13:46:01 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->dd

Dima has been working recently on snp(4). 
It might worth adding the config(8) directive to the SYNOPSIS.

Comment 3 dd freebsd_committer

2001-11-24 17:03:01 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I've updated the snp(4) and watch(8) manual pages to talk about this 
stuff.  It will be MFC'd with the rest of the snp(4) updates (probably 
some time before 4.5).