RHBA-2009:1630 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated man-pages-ja package that fixes documentation errors and typos
is now available.

Description

The man-pages-ja package contains Japanese translations of the Linux
Documentation Project man pages.

This updated package corrects errors and fixes typos as follows:

• the mkfs man page stated a file system could be built on a device (eg

/dev/hda1) or the mount point for the file system (eg /usr or /home). The
latter statement is incorrect: a file system can not be built on a file
system's mount point. The English language version of the mkfs man page was
corrected previously. With this update, the Japanese version has also been
corrected. (BZ#486655)

• the Japanese version of the less man page noted the application can

identify Japanese character encodings from the LANG environment variable.
This is not correct: with older versions of less, when LANG was set to
Shift JIS (ja_JP.SJIS) and less was run on a file that contains SJIS
mult-byte characters, a "may be a binary file. See it anyway?" message was
returned. To run less on files containing SJIS multi-byte characters, in
addition to setting the appropriate LANG environment variable, the
LESSCHARSET environment variable had to be set to "dos". This update
removes documentation related to Japanese-specific features of older
version of less (including the details noted above). (BZ#509048)

• the strings command takes a "--byte=min-len" option but the Japanese

strings man page presented this option as "-byte=min-len" (ie, with a
missing initial hyphen). This error has been corrected. Note: attempting to
run strings with, in effect, a "-b" option returns an "invalid option -- b"
error, along with help text noting the "--bytes=[number]" option.
(BZ#515467)

• the chgrp command's "--dereference" option is the default, and is

documented as such in the English languae chgrp man page. Previously,
however, the Japanese translation erroneously listed "-h" or
"--no-dereference" as the default. This error has been corrected and the
Japanese chgrp man page now correctly lists "--dereference" as the default
option. BZ#527638

• the SOCKET OPTIONS section of the ip man page listed IP_MULTICAST_IF as

taking ip_mreqn or ip_addr arguments. This is incorrect: IP_MULTICAST_IF
takes arguments with ip_mreqn or in_addr structures. This update corrects
the error. Note: the same error was present in the original English man
page. The English-language error was corrected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 via the man pages bug fix update, RHBA-2009-1574. (BZ#537103)

• the previous release of man-pages-ja contained an older version of the

hostname man page which did not document all available command options.
This has been corrected: this new man-pages-ja release includes an
up-to-date man page which documents all of the hostname command's options.
(BZ#533782)

• the elvtune command is deprecated for Linux kernel version 2.6 and it is

not shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. the elvtune man page was still
included in the man-pages-ja package, however. With this update, the
elvtune man page has been removed to avoid confusion. (BZ#519707)

All man-pages-ja users should upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 519707 - elvtune manual page is present but the program doesn't exist
• BZ - 527638 - Japanese man page of chgrp is wrong
• BZ - 537103 - IP_MULTICAST_IF incorrectly documented as to which arguments it takes in Japanese man pages

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1574.html