Bug 110481

Summary:	console(4) is out of date
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen (myllynen)
Component:	man-pages	Assignee:	documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages)
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	mtk.manpages, peter
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:		Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Marko Myllynen 2016-01-07 08:31:34 UTC

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console.4.html should be updated to match modern distributions, currently it talks about inittab and MAKEDEV.

Comment 1 Peter Hurley 2016-01-07 22:27:40 UTC

Or remove it altogether, and let the distros maintain their own console(4) page that reflects the actual setup.

FWIW, Debian and derivatives don't install this page and Fedora is stripped down to near meaninglessness.

Comment 2 Michael Kerrisk 2016-03-15 00:50:17 UTC

So, I'm not averse to deleting this page. It has seen no substantial updates since it was first written in 1994. Marko, what are your thoughts?

Cheers,

Michael

Comment 3 Marko Myllynen 2016-03-15 07:11:27 UTC

Yeah, might be probably best just to drop the page, otherwise it would need to be entirely rewritten, in current form it doesn't offer anything helpful or even correct information. Thanks.

Comment 4 Michael Kerrisk 2016-03-15 08:41:26 UTC

Okay, I've deleted this page. Change will appear in man-pages-4.06.