Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:18:44 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> To: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> Cc: FBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Man Page Mystery Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011091109270.31242-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4D75@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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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
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