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On Tuesday 12 February 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Yup, it does seem way over the top. Surely though there is some |
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> rhyme to the reason. Man pages are such a large part of the very |
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> essence of unix. It seems a serious shame that a user is better off |
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> googling for `linux man ping' than the long standing `man ping'. |
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In the interest of benefiting the entire gentoo community, reducing |
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frustration levels and helping fellow gentoo users from having to |
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download 8M of stuff to get the ping man page restored to it's rightful |
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place of honour, I hereby humbly offer the following miniscule |
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attachment - the ping man page nicked off a conveniently located Ubuntu |
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machine. At a mere 5539 bytes it's size is negligible compared to the |
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bandwidth that will be otherwise consumed. |
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Save attachment as /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz |
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then |
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chown root:root /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz |
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chmod 0644 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz |
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To round off the package I can supply suitable man pages for arping and |
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tracepath as well at the grand size of 1481 and 1785 bytes respectively |
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:-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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