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Re: baffling ssh problem



On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:33:14AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Wayne Topa wrote:
> >Douglas A. Tutty(dtutty@porchlight.ca) is reported to have said:
> >>Just for completeness, you didn't need a google search.  The info is
> >>somewhere around line 721 in the ssh(1) man page. :))
> >
> >Not on my boxen Douglas.  It ends on line 579.  I just read the man
> >page, again, and still don't see it. I'm only half way through my
> >first cup of coffe so I will go back and read it again after cup 3-4.
> >It must be in the AUTHENTICATION section.
> 
> man formats things to your particular page size on-screen in most  
> setups, so referring to things in man pages by page number, is almost  
> universally -- worthless.

Then perhaps Debian's man system should report something more useful
than line number.  OBSD gives a percentage.

Doug.



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