On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote: > > > > Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you try > > > > e.g. 'man portmaster'? It might be that your manual pages setup > > > > is broken. > > > > > > I get the message "No manual entry for portmaster", but using your > > > command I can read it. "man man" e. g. works perfectly. > > > > That sounds to me that the configuration for the man command is > > broken. If you give the 'manpath' command, does the output include > > /usr/local/man? > > "manpath" does show correct settings AFAIK meaning that the answer to > your question is "yes".
Try running (in tcsh) 'man -d portmaster >& man-portmaster.txt'. This will tell you where man(1) is looking for the portmaster manual file. Among the text in man-portmaster.txt should be something like this: searching in /usr/local/man trying section 8 with globbing globbing /usr/local/man/man8/portmaster.8* found ultimate source file /usr/local/man/man8/portmaster.8.gz to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/local/man/cat8/portmaster.8.gz will try to write /usr/local/man/cat8/portmaster.8.gz if needed status from is_newer() = -2 using default preprocessor sequence found tbl(1) directive Couldn't open /usr/local/man/cat8/portmaster.8.gz.tmp5XCE4n for writing. using default preprocessor sequence found tbl(1) directive trying command: (cd /usr/local/man ; /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/man8/portmaster.8.gz | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tascii | /usr/bin/col | less) It should at least contain the first three lines. If not, man isn't searching the right directory. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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