Guys can you start a new thread about growlnotify? We've got like 5 conversations going about different things trailing from the 1.2 release posting.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Don Montalvo <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
