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
>
>
>
> >
>

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