Subject: bin/22539: Minor improvement to the mopd.8 man page
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <eric@cirr.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/18/2003 16:58:57
>Number: 22539
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Improvement of the mopd.8 manual page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 18 22:00:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Eric Schnoebelen
>Release: NetBSD 1.6W
>Organization:
Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Plano, TX US
>Environment:
System: NetBSD egsner.cirr.com 1.6W NetBSD 1.6W (GENERIC.MP) #1: Fri Aug 8 06:11:31 CDT 2003 eric@egsner.cirr.com:/work/eric/NetBSD-current/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
After mucking about trying to MOP boot a new SRM image on a DS10L
and failing (repeately), a review of the source revealed that I
was passing the filename in the wrong format. Actually, I was
including the filename's extension, when I shouldn't have been.
The mopd.8 manual page didn't say anything about mopd
automatically appending `.SYS' to any provided file name, so I
was providing it. Once I looked at the source, I understood
what I was doing wrong, but this was after several hours of
trying to do it just from the man pages..
>How-To-Repeat:
naively attempt to MOP boot an alpha system..
>Fix:
Here is a small update to the mopd.8 manual page to document
that mopd automatically appends a `.SYS' suffix.
cvs server: Diffing .
Index: mopd.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.sbin/mopd/mopd/mopd.8,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -b -u -w -r1.8 mopd.8
--- mopd.8 5 Nov 2002 14:18:04 -0000 1.8
+++ mopd.8 18 Aug 2003 21:58:12 -0000
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It Pa /tftpboot/mop
.El
+.Sh NOTES
+.Nm
+automatically appends an upper case
+.Pa .SYS
+to the filename provided by the client. The typical client sends the
+the requested file name in upper case.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mopchk 1 ,
.Xr mopcopy 1 ,
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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