Cron useage question

[David L Norris]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 23:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> My problem is that I don't recall ever having seen a document 
> that defines what the various manpage 'chapters' as you call 
> them, are supposed to represent.

Here's an overview of the traditional UNIX System Manual:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_manual


Here is a breakdown of the LDP system manual from the man-pages
documentation:

    Section 0p = POSIX headers
    Section 1p = POSIX utilities
    Section 3p = POSIX functions
 
    Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
    Section 2 = system calls
    Section 3 = libc calls
    Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
    Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd,
nfs)
    Section 6 = games (intro only)
    Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
    Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
 
    Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these
    should be distributed with the binaries they are written for.
    Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the
kernel.
 
    Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
    several hundred man pages.  

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
  ICQ - 412039
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