autofs man page too old on my ubuntu LTS 10.04

[Peng Yu]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 01:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the following autofs man page, which is too old.
>>
>> I tried to search 'autofs' on http://packages.ubuntu.com/  under
>> "Search the contents of packages". But I don't see which package I
>> should install to get the latest man page. Could anybody show me what
>> is the proper way to search a package? In particular, what package I
>> should install to get the latest man page of autofs?
>>
>
> That is the latest man page for autofs:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man8/autofs.8.html
> Try:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man5/autofs.5.html
>
> File a bug report if you think they are outdated:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs

I'm not sure if they are outdated or not. One was written in 1997 and
the other was written in 2000. It just looks strange to me that they
have not been updated in the last 10 years. Does it mean autofs user
interface hasn't been changed in the last 10 years?

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Regards,
Peng