Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:28:38 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man question Message-ID: <20040122102838.GA19971@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <1f35a1f2b0.1f2b01f35a@etat.lu> References: <1f35a1f2b0.1f2b01f35a@etat.lu>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:30:55AM +0100, Didier Wiroth typed: > Hi, > > I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory: > /home/me/custom/ > > In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories: > /home/me/custom/man > /home/me/custom/man/man1 > /home/me/custom/man/man8 > > The man8 and man1 directory contains some .8 and .1 man files. > > For example /home/me/custom/man/man8/logrotate.8 > When I enter: man 8 logrotate > I get: No entry for logrotate in section 8 of the manual > or > man logrotate: > No manual entry for logrotate > > What do I have to do, to be able to use/view those man files, only ME? I don't want to modif manpath.config (as this is a global configuration file)? Look at the manpath(1) manpage. If you add /home/me/custom to your $PATH, /home/me/custom/man will be automatically added to your search path. Ruben > > thx > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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