own copyright and a statement that the man page is released under the
IBM Public License Version 1.0, or under some other license that is
sufficiently compatible that we can use your work. If you use another
- license and that license isn't "public domain," you have to give the
- full license text in the man page; please don't use a license so long
- that this is annoying.
+ license and that license isn't "public domain" or one of the ones
+ already listed in our LICENSE file, you have to give the full license
+ text in the man page; please don't use a license so long that this is
+ annoying.
The SYNOPSIS section should start with the full command name and the
full names of all options, and then have a second section showing the
surrounding the variable. For consistency in formatting, references to
those variables should be formatted the same in following text.
+Man Page Sections
+
+ The section of a man page is determined by which directory it's in.
+ pod1 will be section 1 man pages, pod5 will be section 5, and pod8 will
+ be section 8.
+
+ The breakdown between section 1 and section 8 is fuzzy and it's hard to
+ get right. The current layout balances the following goals:
+
+ * In general, section 1 is used for commands that can be executed by any
+ user and section 8 is used for commands that can only be meaningfully
+ issued as root. If a command can be run with AFS privileged
+ credentials but still as a regular user on the local system, the
+ preference is for it to be in section 1, although some pages of that
+ type are in section 8.
+
+ * All the commands for a given suite should be kept together. So, for
+ example, there are fs commands that can only be issued as root, but
+ since most of the suite is available to any user, all of the fs
+ commands are in section 1.
+
+ * The sections of the man pages should roughly correspond to the
+ installation paths of the binaries. Binaries installed in bin should
+ have man pages in section 1 and binaries installed in sbin should have
+ man pages in section 8.
+
+ Section 5 should be used for all documentation of configuration files
+ and file formats.
+
How You Can Help
The OpenAFS man page project is just starting, and a lot of work remains
* The following installed commands have no man pages:
+ compile_et.afs
copyauth
fs cscpolicy
+ fs getfid
fs memdump
- fs minidump
fs monitor
fs rxstatpeer
fs rxstatproc
fs setcbaddr
+ fs trace
+ klog.krb
+ krb.conf
+ pagsh.krb
restorevol
rmtsysd
- vldb_convert
- vos clone
- vos setfields
- vos shadow
+ tokens.krb
vsys
+ * Add -noresolve to the documentation of all the vos commands.
+
* klog.krb, pagsh.krb, and tokens.krb need to be listed as alternative
names in the NAME line of the non-.krb man pages, links should be
installed on man page installation, and the behavior of pagsh.krb
* bos addkey should be marked deprecated in favor of using asetkey with
a keytab.
- * I'm fairly sure that the fileserver man page no longer documents all
- of the fileserver options.
-
* There are lingering references to AFS Development or AFS Product
Support in descriptions of options that one should generally not
use. Also, all of the manual references refer to the "IBM" manual.
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