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Patch for resolv.conf(5) man page
- To: bugs@openbsd.org
- Subject: Patch for resolv.conf(5) man page
- From: "Mark D. Roth" <roth@feep.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:16:43 -0500
- Content-Disposition: inline
- Organization: Feep Networks
- User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Mark D. Roth
>Organization:
net
>Synopsis: document comment characters in resolv.conf(5) man page
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: documentation
>Class: doc-bug
>Release: OPENBSD_3_5
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 3.5
Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
Machine : i386
>Description:
The resolv.conf(5) man page does not document how to add
comments to the file.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run "man resolv.conf". :)
>Fix:
Apply the following patch:
--- resolv.conf.5 2003-08-08 04:51:54.000000000 -0500
+++ resolv.conf.5.new 2004-05-05 14:57:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of
keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information.
.Pp
+A hash mark (`#') or semicolon (`;') indicates the beginning of a comment;
+subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by
+the routines that read the file.
+.Pp
On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.
The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine,
the domain name is determined from the host name,
--
Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
http://www.feep.net/~roth/