Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:04:21
Message-Id: 201111061701.46354.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute? by Florian Philipp
1 On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 16:08:09 Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick:
3 > > Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop?
4 > >
5 > > An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss.
6 >
7 > It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the
8 > old 2.0.3 version from sourceforge still contains it. I couldn't find
9 > any mention on on bugs.g.o or traceroute-devel.
10
11 Thanks for confirming this.
12
13 It is somewhat odd that it is not included. There is a page for traceroute6
14 which asks the user to refer to the traceroute(8) o_O
15
16 I think I'll copy it over from my old box, but I suspect it may be removed
17 again by later man page packages?
18
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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