From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Subject: Syntax errors in man and help regarding rulenum placement Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:12:49 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45651 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752456AbZBTPNA (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:00 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LaX3i-0004H9-Hi for netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:12:58 +0000 Received: from p57a2fbdf.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.162.251.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:12:58 +0000 Received: from rm by p57a2fbdf.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:12:58 +0000 Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: man iptables of v1.4.2 gives these 2 different syntaxes for example for the -I option: iptables [-t table] -I [rulenum] rule-specification [options...] iptables [-t table] -I chain [rulenum] rule-specification And iptables --help gives these: iptables -[RI] chain rulenum rule-specification [options] --insert -I chain [rulenum] This is all irritating, don't you think so? Which of them is the officially correct one regarding the placement (location) of the rulenum?