>On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote:
AW> No man page matching to iptables found.
Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too.
Noted, thanks.
Anne
Its Monday morning, and I am back at my Linux machine, so I can get the right file names. I lost the original message some ware, so this isn't a direct reply to this message, but to the thread.
Now, the man command uses several ways to find the man page you are looking for. I am not sure, but I think konqueror is doing the same thing. If you have MANPATH defined, it will use that. If you do not, then it looks at /etc/man.conf to generate a search path. If it is working from the config file, it will then also use PATH, along with a few other shell variables, to determine the search path. With most systems, it is not going to make a difference if you are running as a user, or as root. If anything, the user's PATH may find some man pages that root will not. (man pages for games, off the /usr/game directory tree.)
One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also want to look at some of the shell variables that can be set to change the way man displays things...
Mikkel --
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