Bug 80311 - Not a bug at all
Summary: Not a bug at all
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 low
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2014-07-15 21:17 UTC by Worik
Modified: 2014-07-16 07:17 UTC (History)
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Description Worik 2014-07-15 21:17:42 UTC 
I am editing a /etc/hosts file and hence reading the man page.  I have noticed two issues.


1: I wish to associate at least two host names with one IP number. (killmartha.com and worik.org to start with).  It is not clear in the man page if I should use two lines:

              IP_address1 hostname1
              IP_address1 hostname2

or 

              IP_address1 hostname1 hostname2

In the second case hostname2 would be an alias for hostname1.  From reading the man page I am guessing I use two lines but it is not clear.

2: canonical_hostname is not defined in the document.  (I am fairly sure I know what it is but it should be defined in the document that uses it) and alias is defined but it is not clear from the definition if it can be used in the one line case above.

I am confident I can sort this out for myself.  If so I can write what I think should be added to the man page if any one agrees with me that this is a problem.

Worik
Comment 1 Worik 2014-07-15 21:22:44 UTC 
I should have looked at the examples.  Duh!
Comment 2 walter 2014-07-16 07:17:14 UTC 
Am 15.07.2014 23:22, schrieb bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80311
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Worik <root@worik.org> ---
> I should have looked at the examples.  Duh!
> 


NTL it should also be clear from the text,
 feel free to post improvements.

re,
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