From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 17:05:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1CB1065674 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf00.insightbb.com (mxsf00.insightbb.com [74.128.0.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F5F8FC08 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:05:18 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,243,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="916903004" Received: from unknown (HELO asav01.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf00.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 13:05:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlNEAF9roExKgCiCO2dsb2JhbACHbYwnjX8MAQEBATUtyRSFRAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,243,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="286043468" Received: from 74-128-40-130.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([74.128.40.130]) by asavout01.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 13:05:17 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:05:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.1; i386; ; ) References: <201009111442.49114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <201009261252.14140.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <201009271135.19590.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201009271135.19590.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009271305.13740.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Subject: Re: apropos returning same item twice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:05:18 -0000 On Monday 27 September 2010 6:35:19 am Mike Clarke wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > > > Another check is that the output of manpath(1) doesn't > > > > > include /usr/X11R6/man. > > > > > > > > manpath > > > > /usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/kde4/man:/usr/share/open > > > > > > > >ssl/man: > > > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/perl/ > > > > > > > >man > > > > > > Ok. There's also: > > > %man -a -w mysql > > > > > > to see the origins of the multiple man pages, although it seems > > > that you may have already confirmed the /usr/X11R6 path connection. > > > > > > >From what you've presented so far I'd say it's looking like a > > > > > > > > problem > > > > man -a -w mysql > > /usr/local/man/man1/mysql.1.gz > > /usr/X11R6/man/man1/mysql.1.gz > > Same here - until I realised that I still had /usr/X11R6/bin in $PATH, > left over from the days before /usr/X11R6 was a link to /usr/local. > Removing /usr/X11R6/bin from $PATH fixed it for me. According to the > man page for manpath it "tries to determine the user's manpath from a > set of system defaults and the user's PATH". Thanks, dude. That was my problem. -- System Name: laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org Hardware: 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory OS version: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel) manager(s): kde4-4.5.1 X windows: xorg-7.5 X.Org X Server 1.7.5