Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:58:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken? Message-ID: <44B67BA3.7060904@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <007601c6a693$012bd150$0a10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> References: <007601c6a693$012bd150$0a10a8c0@holgerdanske.local>
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David Christensen wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ?
>=20
> $ cat /etc/manpath.config | egrep -v '^#'
> MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man
> MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/openssl/man
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/man
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
> MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/share/man
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/share/man
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/man
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/perl/man
>=20
>=20
>> You can see the ultimate result by running the 'manpath' command.
>=20
> 2006-07-13 08:38:20 dpchrist@k62350 ~
> $ manpath
> (Warning: MANPATH environment variable set)
> :/home/dpchrist/local/man
>=20
>=20
>> See the manpath(1) man page for more information.
>=20
> 2006-07-13 08:38:58 dpchrist@k62350 ~
> $ man manpath
> No manual entry for manpath
>=20
>=20
> Any other ideas?
Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set
$MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work correctly.=
Matthew
--=20
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