docs/65065: improper language ntpd man pages
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Apr 2 17:01:17 UTC 2004
O come now ... let's not take all of the flair and interest out of the man
page! How about "Not recommended for the faint of heart!"?
It's a shame that we have to be so serious to look professional. Next thing
you know, the joke will be removed from the end of the tunefs man page :(
-Bill (who thought "not recommended for sissies" was cool)
Marc Silver wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/65065; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Marc Silver <marcs at draenor.org>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: docs/65065: improper language ntpd man pages
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:30:18 +0200
>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline
>
> GNATS doesn't seem to like my previous attachment... so here goes again.
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="ntpd.8-patch.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ntpd.8-patch.txt"; size=295
>
> --- ntpd.8.orig Fri Apr 2 11:49:44 2004
> +++ ntpd.8 Fri Apr 2 11:52:54 2004
> @@ -152,8 +152,9 @@
> ID.
> .It Fl P
> Override the priority limit set by the operating system.
> -Not
> -recommended for sissies.
> +Using this option is
> +.Em not
> +recommended for inexperienced users.
> .It Fl q
> Exit the
> .Nm
>
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