On 23/03/07, Brian Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> Your manpath probably isn't set correctly. The default manpath for
> Solaris does *not* include all of the man directories for all
> installed software; it is up to you set it appropriately.
>
> Setting your manpath to include /usr/sfw/man, /opt/SUNWspro/man, etc.
> would probably alleviate most of these. As far as I know, Sun requires
> a man page for almost every binary, even if the software is 3rd party.
>
This was broken on some OpenSolaris Nevada builds (possibly Solaris 10?)
on X86 and is a perfect example of a gotcha which seems trivial to
Solaris old-timers but would convince almost any newcomer into thinking
"Solaris sucks." It appears to be fixed in SXDE, but if it rears its
ugly head again, please log a bug!
I'm not an old-timer by any means, but in years past I used Gentoo,
FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Linux From Scratch, Slackware and others. As
such, I'm rather used to the arcane things...
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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