From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11274 invoked by alias); 5 Aug 2014 16:48:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11251 invoked by uid 89); 5 Aug 2014 16:48:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173017pub.verizon.net Received: from vms173017pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173017pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:48:16 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173017.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0N9U007Z4EO90F51@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:48:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <53E10AC9.9010600@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:48:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cannot display man page for /bin/passwd References: <20140805082102.GD2868@calimero.vinschen.de> In-reply-to: X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 On 08/05/2014 11:09 AM, Doug Henderson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 4 13:48, Doug Henderson wrote: >>> When I try to display the man page for /bin/passwd, the man page for >>> the openssl passwd subcommand is displayed. >>> >>> It appears that both the package containing /bin/passwd, and the >>> openssl package place the passwd.1.gz file in the /usr/share/man/man1 >>> directory, so that only the man page from the most recently installed >>> package is displayed. >> >> No, the Cygwin passwd tool has no man page. The documentation is >> only in the User's Guide: >> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd >> >> >> Corinna > > My apologies if this is a transitional problem related to the recent > changes to the /etc/passwd file, but … > > Attached is a short script to demonstrate the problem I described. > cyg-passwd.sh (attached with a .txt exension), will pause 3 times > while you run setup-x86_64.exe to 1) install pending changes and make > sure cygwin-doc and openssl are installed, 2) reinstall cygwin-doc, 3) > reinstall openssl. > > Attached is the output from my short script. > > Attached is the output from cygcheck -svr. > > With 30+ years experience on *nix systems, the man page is my first > stop for usage details on any program. > > I believe this problem should be directed to the attention of the > openssl package maintainer. > > Thanks for your continued attention. Did you not see this and now this? -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple