Bug 68843

Summary: Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Chris Pepper <pepper>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: dougb
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Chris Pepper 2004-07-09 04:50:21 UTC 
	The manual pages for rc & rc.subr have very strange dates.

Fix: 

Reconcile the date lines (or entities?) used for manual page versions.
How-To-Repeat: 	Look at the last line of the rc & rc.subr manual pages on a variety of recent systems, including the web site:

pepper@www:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004     root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP  i386
pepper@www:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                    January 6, 2004                   FreeBSD 4.10
pepper@www:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                   December 11, 1993                  FreeBSD 4.10

pepper@guest:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004     root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5  i386
pepper@guest:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1 
FreeBSD 5.2.1                   April 18, 2002                   FreeBSD 5.2.1
pepper@guest:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 5.2.1                  November 4, 2002                  FreeBSD 5.2.1

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                    April 18, 2002                    FreeBSD 4.10
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                   November 4, 2002                   FreeBSD 4.10
	And the hypertext man pages can't find rc.subr(8) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE or FreeBSD 4.10-stable, which is illogical since the manual page with no version specification claims to be from 4.10:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html
Comment 1 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-13 10:12:12 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Hello, 

The documentation takes the version from the uname, so that 
explains the weird output you mention, but we cannot change 
that, and it is just a minor detail, so I will close the PR. 

Apart from that: Thanks for taking the time to report this!