r286615: /usr/libexec/ftpd broken!

Jamie Landeg-Jones jamie at dyslexicfish.net
Sat Sep 5 10:09:28 UTC 2015


Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:

> It would have been so nice if man(1) would have told you that there
> were 2 ftpd manpages and that you need to specify which one you want.
> That should raise an eyebrow right away...

I was bitten by a similar issue in the past. I now alias 'man' to 'man -a':

-a  Display all manual pages instead of just the first found for each
    page argument.

cheers, Jamie


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