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From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Wrong location of magic in file man page
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>Number:         2987
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Wrong location of 'magic' in the 'file' man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    mpp
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 14 06:30:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Wed Apr 9 21:52:34 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Wed Apr  9 21:53:10 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Lars Koeller
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA
>Organization:
Department of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany
>Environment:
>Description:

   The location of the file 'magic' previously  located in /etc and used by
   the 'file' commant has now  changed to /usr/share/misc/magic. The 'file'
   manpage still stated it at /etc/magic!

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mpp 
Responsible-Changed-By: mpp 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Mar 17 23:28:15 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Man page problem. 

From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/2987: Wrong location of magic in file man page
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:28:10 -0800 (PST)

 Lars Koeller wrote:
 > 
 > >Synopsis:       Wrong location of 'magic' in the 'file' man page
 > >Description:
 > 
 >    The location of the file 'magic' previously  located in /etc and used by
 >    the 'file' commant has now  changed to /usr/share/misc/magic. The 'file'
 >    manpage still stated it at /etc/magic!
 
 /etc/magic still exists as a symlink to /usr/share/misc/magic.
 Since /etc/magic is the "historical" location of this file, I am
 somewhat reluctant to change the man page.  Comments?
 -- 
 Mike Pritchard
 mpp@FreeBSD.org
 "Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Wed Apr 9 21:52:34 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed after the file 3.22 import.  /etc/magic no longer exists 
as a symlink to the real magic file. 
>Unformatted:

