From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 8:44:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5269514EA7 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA09168; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:44:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:44:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chris Shenton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disable creating catman pages from unformatted man pages? Message-ID: <19990930104443.A7141@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 30), Chris Shenton said: > I'd like to be able to disable the automatic creation of formatted man > pages. I find generating the formatted pages for display on the fly > fast enough and am running low on disk on one of my systems. The man > page on man :-) mentions: > > If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man pages will > also be compressed with the `/usr/bin/gzip -c' command to save > space. > > It doesn't say how to disable generating them in the first place. > /etc/host.conf mentions compressing *un*formatted man pages (fine) but > nothing about creation of formatted pages. I don't see any relevant > fields in /etc/manpath.config either. Try removing /usr/share/man/cat* . If man cannot create the formatted file it will not complain. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message