Well I am a little red faced and I apologize to the group. I was using the preconfigured man pages which were causing me problems.
I went back and set "--enable-manpage-build" and reconfigured amanda, which rebuilt the man pages from the xml files, and no the man pages seem to be working ok. Again I do apologize. Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:39 PM > To: McGraw, Robert P > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: man pages for Solaris > > > How do you install amanda (and the man page) > From svn repository? source tarballs? a package? Which one? > > Jean-Louis > > McGraw, Robert P wrote: > > [119][amandabacku@hertz]:~/sbin% uname -a > > SunOS hertz.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_142901-11 i86pc i386 i86pc > > > > Amanda 3.2.3 > > > > Sorry. Reading the forum it seems that this is a known problem with the > Solaris and has been happening for a while. > > > > > > This is what I get when I run > > > > nroff -man ./amstatus.8 > > > > System Administration Commands AMSTATUS(8) > > : > > : BLANK > > : > > Amanda 3.2.0 Last change: 10/18/2010 1 > > > > There is a lot of lines in the file it just does not get converted for > display. > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-amanda- > [email protected]] > >> On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:36 PM > >> To: '[email protected]' > >> Subject: Re: man pages for Solaris > >> > >> > >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44:47AM -0400, 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. > >> > >> Robert, > >> > >> It would help if you would tell us 'how' they are not working. > >> > >> As a last recourse you could "roff" them manually. > >> > >> nroff -man amvault.8 > >> groff -man -T ascii amvault.8 > >> > >> jon > >> -- > >> Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] > >> JG Computing > >> 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 > >> Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax) > >> > > > >
