On 5/10/11 11:44 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
Has anyone figured a way to get the Amanda man pages to work with Solaris?
I use the web man pages, but it would be nice to have them local some times.
Just to clarify that -- they "seem to work" (i.e. you can do `man amanda` and you get the man8 page
for Amanda from /usr/local/man/man8), but the formatting notation isn't totally consistent with what
is expected for man on Solaris. That results in some things not displaying correctly and the man
page just cutting off in the middle of a sentence.
So, for example, on an older version of Amanda on Solaris 10, the man page
finishes up with:
.amandahosts
This is essentially the same as authentication except a
different file, with almost the same format, is used.
This is the default mechanism built into Amanda.
The format of the
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("Amanda" is underlined in that.)
There is a critical word missing (it should say "same as .rhost authentication"), and it just cuts
off without finishing the rest of the man page. The contents of the amanda.8 file at that point is:
\&.amandahosts
.RS 4
This is essentially the same as
\fB.rhosts\fR
authentication except a different file, with almost the same format, is used. This is the
default mechanism built into
\fIAmanda\fR.
.sp
The format of the
\fI.amandahosts\fR
file is:
.sp
\fIhostname\fR
[
\fIusername\fR
[
\fIservice\fR
]*]
.sp
That's just an example. I have a recollection of manually editing and fixing man page files in the
past, but haven't done that recently.
In reply to Jon LaBadie's email,
nroff -man amanda.8
groff -man -T ascii amanda.8
both return the same result as just doing `man amanda`.
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