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Manual Pages and Documentation Extras
This directory contains CLI tools man page sources as well as a few documentation extras:
- An annotated rabbitmq.conf example (see new style configuration format)
- An annotated advanced.config example (see The advanced.config file)
- A systemd unit file example
Please see rabbitmq.com for documentation guides.
man Pages
Dependencies
mantidy5(a.k.a.tidy-html5)
On macOS, tidy5 can be installed with Homebrew:
brew install tidy-html5
and then be found under the bin directory of the Homebrew cellar:
/opt/homebrew/bin/tidy --help
Source Files
This directory contains man pages in ntroff, the man page format.
To inspect a local version, use man:
man docs/rabbitmq-diagnostics.8
man docs/rabbitmq-queues.8
To converted all man pages to HTML using mandoc:
gmake web-manpages
The result then must be post-processed and copied to the website repository:
# cd deps/rabbit/docs
#
# clear all generated HTML and Markdown files
rm *.html *.md
# export tidy5 path
export TIDY5_BIN=/opt/homebrew/bin/tidy;
# run the post-processing script, in this case it updates the 3.13.x version of the docs
./postprocess_man_html.sh . /path/to/rabbitmq-website.git/versioned_docs/version-3.13/man/
Contributions
Since deployed man pages are generated, it is important to keep them in sync with the source. Accepting community contributions — which will always come as website pull requests — is fine but the person who merges them is responsible for backporting all changes to the source pages in this repo.