Buchan Milne <mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:43:54 T.J. Yang wrote:

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Hi, SebA

Would mind go one step further ? get a hobbit developer account from Henrik to update the manpages ?

In other projects I am familiar with, initial contributions start with patches filed on a tracker. Commit access is *not* necessary for contribution, but an RCS (which we now have) and interaction with people who do have commit access is.

(I haven't asked for commit access as I think my own contributions would need to follow such a path).

Regards, Buchan

While I'm flattered by your suggestion TJ, I do agree with Buchan. Especially as I have no proven ability to patch man pages. In fact, I don't know what the syntax is for them, and while I'm sure I could learn pretty easily, I'm really too busy in my work to justify this right now. And, anyway, I was trying to encourage someone who had or knew some more complex examples to submit them first.

And, on that subject, I was _going_ to ask if it was possible to do this: HOST=myHost MAIL myEmail SERVICE=procs,smtp ... Since that isn't documented either: all the examples have SERVICE on the same line as HOST. Well, I decided I'd test it myself with: $ ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test And the answer is yes so long as you put the SERVICE= after the MAIL command.

(If the SERVICE= is before the MAIL command, as in: HOST=myHost SERVICE=procs,smtp MAIL myEmail ... then it is as if you had: HOST=myHost # Becomes irrelevant as the parser reckons the next line is another completely separate rule. SERVICE=procs,smtp MAIL myEmail ... Which is unlikely to be what you intended.)

Maybe we have now covered all the examples needed though?

Kind regards,

SebA