According to the Samba documentation, the manpages are supposed to be
installed with Samba. Quote:
docs/manpages: You don't need to worry about these yet; during the
installation, the files will be installed so that you can use the man
command to read them. But you can take a look in the directory to see
which manpages are available.
My problem:
Samba4 on 64bit Fedora 17 will not install the manpages, other than a
bare-bones "samba" page. Specifically, it will not install the
"smb.conf" page.
What I tried:
I tried reinstalling Samba with the following commands:
sudo yum reinstall samba4
sudo yum reinstall samba4-devel
sudo yum reinstall samba4-common
sudo yum reinstall samba4-libs
No luck - "man smb.conf" still gave a "No manual entry for smb.conf" error.
After googling some more, I found the "make installman" command. So I
downloaded the source for Samba4, and ran ./configure, make, and then
make installman. That returned the following error:
No rule to make target `installman'
Wow, this is a PITA. Googling for that error didn't reveal anything helpful.
Next, I reinstalled from source (which I just finished compiling),
thinking the manpages might be installed with a full, manual
installation: sudo make install. Still no luck - "man smb.conf" still
gives the same error.
During my googling, I remember reading about pointing the "man" command
to the location of the manpages. So, I used the following command to
look for the man pages:
locate smb|grep man
Next, "man man" told me the location of the local man config file. I
wasn't sure which PATH to use, so I added these to /etc/man_db.conf:
MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/local/samba/share/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/local/samba/share/man
MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/local/samba/share/man
That finally fixed my manpage problem.
Why must the Samba man pages be so $#@%#! difficult to install? Every
other Linux application that I have ever installed automatically
installs the man pages. Why can't Samba do the same thing?
PS: This email would be a lot easier to read if mailing lists supported
<code> tags, or if Samba had a forum or bulletin board. :)
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