Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:50:12 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man question Message-ID: <20040121235012.GA37463@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> 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 wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory:
> /home/me/custom/
>=20
> In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories:
> /home/me/custom/man
> /home/me/custom/man/man1
> /home/me/custom/man/man8
>=20
> The man8 and man1 directory contains some .8 and .1 man files.
>=20
> For example /home/me/custom/man/man8/logrotate.8
> When I enter: man 8 logrotate=20
> I get: No entry for logrotate in section 8 of the manual
> or=20
> man logrotate:=20
> No manual entry for logrotate
>=20
> 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)?
setenv MANPATH `manpath`:/home/me/custom/man
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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