/usr/man is the usual place for them, but other locations are possible.
Modern versions of man use /etc/manpath.config to specify where to look.
Older ones used an environment variable MANPATH. Usually a distribution
install gets this right, and the man pages are where man expects them to be
on that system.
Since you don't say what man page you tried to access ... is it possible
that there is simply no man page for that particular command? On my (Debian)
systems, many man requests return a "placeholder" man page ("no man page for
this command", roughly), and other distributions may not include this
minimal accommodation to the man system. To see if the system itself works,
try a safe choice like "man man" or "man bash".
At 05:39 PM 4/19/00 -0300, Richard Spencer wrote:
>I recently tried to access a man page and got the
>following error message "no manual entry for __."
>
>I still have all of my man pages in /usr/man.
>Does anyone know where I might look to enable
>my man pages at the bash prompt.
>
>I'm running Red Hat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5 on a Dell
>Latitude LM pentium laptop.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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