Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:58:49 +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: <44B5FD39.7020505@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <007701c6a63c$9bab2110$0a10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> References: <007701c6a63c$9bab2110$0a10a8c0@holgerdanske.local>
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David Christensen wrote:
> hello, world!
>=20
> I'm a FreeBSD newbie who has installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-i386 using
> the "developer with X" option. "man" doesn't seem to work:
>=20
> 2006-07-12 21:59:38 root@k62350 ~
> # man man
> No manual entry for man
>=20
> 2006-07-12 22:12:42 root@k62350 ~
> # echo $MANPATH
> :/root/local/man
>=20
>=20
> The same goes for makewhatis:
>=20
> 2006-07-12 22:12:47 root@k62350 ~
> # makewhatis
> makewhatis: : No such file or directory
> makewhatis: /root/local/man: No such file or directory
>=20
>=20
> Any suggestions?
What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ? The entries in there on a=
newly installed system will give the man(1) command access to all of the
man pages installed in the usual locations (/usr/share/man, /usr/local/ma=
n,
/usr/X11R6/man) If you've got perl installed there will be a couple of ex=
tra
'OPTIONAL_MANPATH' entries specially for that. You can see the ultimate
result by running the 'manpath' command.
The environment variable MANPATH should in general not be set, as that wi=
ll
override the effects of /etc/manpath.config. See the manpath(1) man page=
for more information.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3
7 Priory Courtyard
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