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| author | Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> | 2020-09-22 14:32:44 +0530 |
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| committer | Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> | 2020-09-29 18:17:29 +0200 |
| commit | 15fc8cb3fa98decd0095c5f99af9f614a67e1611 (patch) | |
| tree | 179ede8a9927d7cf64d50fdd51eba6d51074a68e /vmcore-dmesg | |
| parent | 9fd2189baf7adc85f8017145e789d3256f6fcd24 (diff) | |
vmcore-dmesg/man page: Update the vmcore-dmesg man page
The vmcore-dmesg utility has been in usage for several years,
and is pretty stable now.
So its useful now to modify its man page to indicate the same.
Also fix some minor formatting issues.
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'vmcore-dmesg')
| -rw-r--r-- | vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 index d9e3c62..ec594b0 100644 --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) -.TH VMCORE-DMESG 8 "Sep 7, 2010" +.TH VMCORE-DMESG 8 "Sep 21, 2020" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME -vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written +vmcore-dmesg .SH SYNOPSIS .B vmcore-dmesg .RI " vmcore" @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to -standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either +standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either \fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy -of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis. A +of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis. A single build of \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP should work against any linux vmcore written created on any architecture. |