Add Link to Online FreeBSD Man Pages to Help Button

[dlavigne]

The docs reference many FreeBSD manpages but these are stripped out of NanoBSD. Adding a hyperlink pointing to ​http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi in the Help button would make manpage access easier for users without access to a FreeBSD system.

[gcooper]

Or maybe the docs should just reference the manpages directly? Not all of the docs are available with the base system, which what freebsd.org advertises -- unless you go to a Linux distro and happen to punch in the right info, in which case you might get a manpage that's out of sync with the software on the system.

Eventually we sort of need to get away from providing direct/unpolished shell access to beginning / intermediate end-users (advanced users should understand what they're doing by default).

[dlavigne]

I could, but that would be a lot of hyperlinks to change whenever a new version of FreeBSD is released. Having one link in the Help button would allow the user to search themselves for any version and a "Conventions Used" section at the beginning of the documentation could instruct users to use the online search whenever they see a command/filename followed by a (#).

For example, I could hyperlink nologin(8) to ​http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nologin&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html (the search result) but would have to change it when FreeNAS bumps up to FreeBSD 9.0.

[william]

Duplicated of #1920 (supersede this)