Bug#213946: inn2: batcher(8) manpage incomplete

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Oct 18 05:57:06 UTC 2003


Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> writes:

> From: Christian Garbs <debian at cgarbs.de>
> Subject: Bug#213946: inn2: batcher(8) manpage incomplete
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Reply-To: Christian Garbs <debian at cgarbs.de>, 213946 at bugs.debian.org

> Package: inn2
> Version: 2.4.0+20030912-1
> Severity: wishlist

> In batcher(8), the input file format is described like this:

> | The first field is the name of a file holding an article; if it is
> | not an an absolute pathname it is taken relative to <patharticles in
> | inn.conf>.  The second field, if present, specifies the size of the
> | article in bytes.

> This is correct, but incomplete:  The first feed does not need to be the
> path and filename of the article, it can also be storage token.

> I suggest changing it to something like this:

> | The first field is either the storage token of an article or the
> | name of a file holding an article; if it is not an an absolute
> | pathname it is taken relative to <patharticles in inn.conf>.  The
> | second field, if present, specifies the size of the article in
> | bytes.

Thanks, applied to STABLE.  I'm going to rewrite the man page in CURRENT
into POD since we're making changes anyway.

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