From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:18: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355B037B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD57C9405; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:17:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA31327; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:18:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:18:44 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: Daniel Bye Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: RE: Man Page Mystery In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Daniel Bye wrote: > What does your $MANPATH look like? Chances are, the directory > where the "missing" man pages live is not in it. Modify it in > your shell's start up file. Syntax depends on the shell, but > look for how $PATH is added to for a guide. > > Dan Hi Dan, Well your post pointed me in the right direction. I generally set my MANPATH in /etc/profile, as I need to append the location of my postgres man pages. So echo $MANPATH clearly showed that my hack was overriding something. $ echo $MANPATH :/usr/local/pgsql/man It turned out there is a binary I never know existed: /usr/bin/manpath which reads /etc/manpath.config Adding a line to this file and removing my hack to /etc/profile restored man page access. OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/pgsql/man BTW, echo $MANPATH now returns: Interesting, eh? Tom > Hi...this is a very dumb question but I am at a loss. > > man $whatver > returns: > No manual entry for $whatever > > Obviously the man pages are sitting in /usr/share/man* > And equally obviously they are gzipped. > I can tap on them in midc and read them. > > How do I get man to read them? Am I missing some arcane arg? > Can't find any reference to this in the Handbook or Greg's book. > > Thanks much, > Tom > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org > IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 > Fax: 718-354-5056 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: > RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------- SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message