Hi, I have noticed that when I load a module defining MANPATH in my centos7 cluster then the default man pages are no longer available. E.g.
$> ml purge $> man ls This works fine and MANPATH is not defined $> ml purge $> ml GCC/4.8.4 $> man ls No manual entry for ls $> echo $MANPATH /scicore/soft/apps/GCC/4.8.4/share/man:/scicore/soft/apps/binutils/2.25.1/share/man I can workaround it doing this: $> ml purge $> export MANPATH=/usr/share/man $> ml GCC/4.8.4 $> man ls This works fine $> echo $MANPATH /scicore/soft/apps/GCC/4.8.4/share/man:/scicore/soft/apps/binutils/2.25.1/share/man:/usr/share/man Before I was not hitting this problem because I had a file /etc/profile.d/sge.sh which defines MANPATH on login but now that I no longer define MANPATH on login I noticed this problem. Did anyone else experience this problem? I can workaround it by adding a profile file /etc/profile.d/man.sh which defines "MANPATH=/usr/share/man" on login but before doing it I wanted to ask in case someone suggest a different/better approach. Maybe EasyBuild should make sure that MANPATH always contains /usr/share/man ? Pablo. -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer sciCORE, University of Basel SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://scicore.unibas.ch
