Am Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:35:25 -0700 Marcel Moolenaar <mar...@xcllnt.net> schrieb:
> > > On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:15 PM, O. Hartmann <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> > > wrote: > > > > Port security/heimdal installs its own ftpd with its appropriate manpages. > > Ugh :-( > > It would have been so nice if man(1) would have told you that there > were 2 ftpd manpages and that you need to specify which one you want. > That should raise an eyebrow right away... > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mar...@xcllnt.net > A hint came from this list, so I checked via locate the existence of multiple ftpd and ftpd.8[.gz] - and yes, I found several. I circumvent the problem by applying to man the option "-M/usr/share/man" which brought up the the correct manpage. And if it would not be hard ebough, I figured, that deleting port security/heimdal didn't erase the manpage on the particular machine I tested with :-/
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