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From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
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Subject: Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack.
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>Number:         68843
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 09 03:50:21 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Fri Oct 13 09:13:29 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Fri Oct 13 09:13:29 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5 i386


	
>Description:
	The manual pages for rc & rc.subr have very strange dates.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Look at the last line of the rc & rc.subr manual pages on a variety of recent systems, including the web site:

pepper@www:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004     root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP  i386
pepper@www:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                    January 6, 2004                   FreeBSD 4.10
pepper@www:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 4.10                   December 11, 1993                  FreeBSD 4.10

pepper@guest:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004     root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5  i386
pepper@guest:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1 
FreeBSD 5.2.1                   April 18, 2002                   FreeBSD 5.2.1
pepper@guest:~$ man rc|tail -1
FreeBSD 5.2.1                  November 4, 2002                  FreeBSD 5.2.1

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                    April 18, 2002                    FreeBSD 4.10
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8 says:
FreeBSD 4.10                   November 4, 2002                   FreeBSD 4.10
	And the hypertext man pages can't find rc.subr(8) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE or FreeBSD 4.10-stable, which is illogical since the manual page with no version specification claims to be from 4.10:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html

	
>Fix:
	Reconcile the date lines (or entities?) used for manual page versions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 09:12:12 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Hello, 

The documentation takes the version from the uname, so that 
explains the weird output you mention, but we cannot change 
that, and it is just a minor detail, so I will close the PR. 

Apart from that: Thanks for taking the time to report this! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68843 
>Unformatted:
