On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:54 AM, donmontalvo wrote:
>>
>
>> The path for the man page should be /usr/share/man/man1/ so the
>> "man 1
>> growlnotify" command brings up the man page. Was there a reason for
>> creating a /usr/local/man/man1/ directory? Was it different in
>> Leopard? I'm on Snow Leopard...
>
> Well, looking at man(1) and then at /private/etc/man.conf, I think
> it should be in /usr/local/share/man/man1, so that the relationship
> described in the lines
>
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share/man
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share/man
>
> is honored.
>
> Alternatively, see path_helper(8), add the appropriate file
> to /etc/manpaths.d, as in
>
> # echo /usr/local/man >/etc/manpaths.d/usr_local
>
> or even
>
> # echo /usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man >/etc/manpaths.d/usr_local
>
> (to cover both possibilities, since different software may well use
> one or the other)
>
> , and log out and back in again. (both /etc/profile (bash, sh, ksh)
> and
> /etc/csh.login (csh, maybe tcsh) call path_helper)
>
>
> But I agree insofar as ideally one shouldn't have to tweak anything.
> I _think_ that putting it in /usr/local/share/man/man1/ would
> eliminate
> the need to do so, but I've tweaked so darn much on my system that
> I wouldn't swear to what might happen on a more vanilla system.
Wierd, I rebooted and now "man 1 growlnotify" works:
$ which growlnotify
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify
$ locate growlnotify.1
/usr/local/man/man1/growlnotify.1
$ man growlnotify
GROWLNOTIFY(1) BSD General Commands Manual
GROWLNOTIFY(1)
NAME
growlnotify -- send a notification to Growl
...[snip]...
...and "man growlnotify" also works (wierd!):
$ man 1 growlnotify
GROWLNOTIFY(1) BSD General Commands Manual
GROWLNOTIFY(1)
NAME
growlnotify -- send a notification to Growl
...[snip]...
PS, I agree with your statements. I'd like to add that the growlnotify
command line tool should be included in the pkg installer (maybe as an
optional install - although I'd love it if it were installed by
default).
Don
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