Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 12:15 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
> Mark Misulich said the following on 02/21/2011 11:38 AM:
> > > > Have you read FANCONTROL(8)?
> > No, I haven't read that.  Would you expand on this so that I can
> > understand what you are referring to?  I need to be educated about this.
>
> That is the notation for a MAN PAGE.
> It means the FANCONTROL page in section 8
> You can get at it by the CLI command
>
>       man 8 fancontrol
>
> I found it by using the 'apropos' command which searches the titles of
> man pages for the keywords you supply.
>
> As you might have gathered from y posts, when faced with an issue I
> first check the man pages, then the supplied documentation an eventually
> I "go google" if that fails.  First I look for the site of the
> developer, then for people what have had a similar problem.
> If this doesn't solve things I'll ask here, but at this point I'm pretty
> well read on the background.

Thanks for the info.  I have been trying to google a solution for about
a year to this problem without success.  I also tried posting on the
list about this problem six months ago, but without any real help.  This
sounds promising, I will look at it and see if it will help.  Thanks for
the education.

Mark

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