12-18-2008
Creating a Man page for a command
Hi,
I would like to develop a man page as the one we usually get when we execute man <command name>. This man page will be for a samll utility that i have written.
If this is not possible then what are the available possibilites for creating such help.
thanks in advance.
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smbstatus
SMBSTATUS(1) SMBSTATUS(1)
NAME
smbstatus - report on current Samba connections
SYNOPSIS
smbstatus [ -P ] [ -b ] [ -d ] [ -L ] [ -p ] [ -S ] [ -s <configuration file> ] [ -u <username> ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
smbstatus is a very simple program to list the current Samba connections.
OPTIONS
-P If samba has been compiled with the profiling option, print only the contents of the profiling shared memory area.
-b gives brief output.
-d gives verbose output.
-L causes smbstatus to only list locks.
-p print a list of smbd(8) processes and exit. Useful for scripting.
-S causes smbstatus to only list shares.
-s <configuration file>
The default configuration file name is determined at compile time. The file specified contains the configuration details required by
the server. See smb.conf(5)
for more information.
-u <username>
selects information relevant to username only.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8) and smb.conf(5)
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of
Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
19 November 2002 SMBSTATUS(1)