On 2006-07-14 (Fri) 06:55:28 [+], Matthew Seaman wrote:
J wrote:
...
FreeBSD, recently, as my transported Linux bash configs contained
MANPATH=$MANPATH:/custom/manpath. What I never figured out was the
rationale for this. Anyone mind me asking what's wrong with MANPATH or
why
On Monday 17 July 2006 03:49, J wrote:
On 2006-07-14 (Fri) 06:55:28 [+], Matthew Seaman wrote:
J wrote:
...
FreeBSD, recently, as my transported Linux bash configs contained
MANPATH=$MANPATH:/custom/manpath. What I never figured out was the
rationale for this. Anyone mind me
David Christensen wrote:
hello, world!
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:
2006-07-12 21:59:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
# man man
No manual entry for man
2006-07-12 22:12:42 [EMAIL
Matthew Seaman wrote:
What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ?
$ cat /etc/manpath.config | egrep -v '^#'
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/openssl/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH/usr/local/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH/usr/X11R6/man
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:42:53 -0700
David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ?
$ cat /etc/manpath.config | egrep -v '^#'
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/openssl/man
Nick Withers wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:42:53 -0700
David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
See the manpath(1) man page for more information.
2006-07-13 08:38:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ man manpath
No manual entry for manpath
Hahaha... I absolutely
On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Nick Withers wrote:
Unfortunately (or at least as I understand it), the contents of
/etc/manpath.config don't matter if you have the MANPATH
environment variable set.
Is this true if you set it to $MANPATH:/usr/local/additional/path ?
Come to
David Christensen wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
What are the contents of /etc/manpath.config ?
$ cat /etc/manpath.config | egrep -v '^#'
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/openssl/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH/usr/local/man
freebsd-questions:
Nick Withers wrote:
Unfortunately (or at least as I understand it), the contents of
/etc/manpath.config don't matter if you have the MANPATH
environment variable set. Did you happen to set this yourself
(i.e., explicitly)?
Yes:
2006-07-13 13:09:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
On 2006-07-13 (Thu) 13:25:04 [+], David Christensen wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set
$MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work
correctly.
Now I understand:
The environment variable MANPATH should
J wrote:
On 2006-07-13 (Thu) 13:25:04 [+], David Christensen wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set
$MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work
correctly.
Now I understand:
The environment variable MANPATH
J wrote:
On 2006-07-13 (Thu) 13:25:04 [+], David Christensen wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set
$MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work
correctly.
Now I understand:
The environment variable MANPATH
hello, world!
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:
2006-07-12 21:59:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
# man man
No manual entry for man
2006-07-12 22:12:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
# echo $MANPATH
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