On 2004-11-22 Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 esr@??? wrote:
> > This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page
> > for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right
> > person or list, tell me and I will attempt to correct my database.
> I have no idea who generated a man page for eximstats. It is a Perl
> script that is maintained by Steve Campbell (cc'd). Its documentation is
> simple, and is obtained by running "eximstats --help".
eximstats includes documentation in POD format which can be extracted
and converted to a manpage, e.g. we at Debian do that and ship the
result:
pod2man --center=EXIM --section=8 eximstats eximstats.8
> Eximstats is
> part of the Exim distribution, and all that is distributed is the Perl
> script. Presumably somebody who packages up Exim has decided that there
> should be a man page. Perhaps you can discover by looking at the
> distribution where you found the broken man page. I'm afraid there is
> nothing that I can do about this.
As the documentation is embedded in the perl-script afaict this should
fix it:
----------------------------
--- /usr/sbin/eximstats 2004-11-20 11:32:17.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/eximstats 2004-11-22 10:50:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
eximstats [Options] mainlog1 mainlog2 ... > report.txt
eximstats -merge [Options] report.1.txt report.2.txt ... > weekly_report.txt
-Options:
+=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
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hth, cu andreas
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