On Monday 01 December 2014 20:43:37 Charles Lepple did opine And Gene did reply: > On Dec 1, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, before I asked, I redid the nut ./configure --with-doc=auto, > > then a make. Then I step into the docs directory and do a sudo make > > install, which it appears to do. But no manpages were install > > despite the command line echo showing that they were when I did the > > sudo make install, but I am forced to go into the docs directory and > > a man ./name-of-man-page to read it, and mode is only mentioned > > briefly in the example line which shows mode=none. That is a 10-33 > > torr suckage. > > I think that other link I sent to the sample nut.conf has all of the > possible values there - not sure what happened to those comments in > your original file. > > > This I think can be alleviated by setting up the env variable > > MANPATH, which is not apparently configured. Export that and it > > works. So put it in my .bashrc > > > > But since every other manpage on the system works without that env > > setting of $MANPATH, showing > > "/usr/local/ups/share/man:/usr/share/man" when queried now, why > > should i have to do it for nuts man pages? Boggles the mind. > > If you run "./configure" without passing, say, "--prefix=/usr/local", > it will default to "--prefix=/usr/local/ups" which has the advantage > of putting everything in one directory. To clean up, you just delete > /usr/local/ups. Cleaning up after a botched install to /usr/local is > painful, either involving backups, or surgically removing files from > bin/, sbin/, etc/, man/man?/, etc.
BTDT, not fun. Thanks Charles Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
