From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 3 09:37:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03963 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 May 1997 09:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.communique.no (www.communique.no [193.212.204.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA03958 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 09:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4893 invoked by uid 1001); 3 May 1997 16:39:09 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 18:39:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Are Bryne To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Why isn't manpath(1) used? (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Communique DA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I received no answers on this from -questions, so I try here. Are Bryne ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Are Bryne Organization: Communique DA To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:24:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Why isn't manpath(1) used? Having installed 2.2.1-REL, I ask myself why specifically /usr/share/skel/dot.login doesn't use manpath(1) instead of setting it statically. Does this have to do with security? Thanks in advance. Regards, Are Bryne Communique DA Phone: +47 22 44 33 99 Parkveien 51b E-mail: admin@communique.no N-0256 Oslo URL: http://www.communique.no