I validated that the /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man path is in my MAN path. I also performed a makewhatis -v and see that the new pages are being pulled in. However, the soft links in the man1 directory are not shown below. I kind of expected to see those added as part of the DB. It is possible for me to access all the pages below, however, none of the soft link aliases are available using man.
[wagrid03.ciena.com(rmaes)]-> ~ 125> man --path /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man:/usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man [wagrid03.ciena.com(rmaes)]-> ~ 126> sudo makewhatis -v /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man about to enter /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/hostnameutils.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/jsv.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qacct.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qconf.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qdel.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qhold.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qhost.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qmake.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qmod.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qping.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qquota.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qrdel.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qrls.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qrstat.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qrsub.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qsched.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qselect.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qstat.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qstatus.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qtcsh.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sge-enable-disable.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sge-node-selection.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sge_ckpt.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sge_intro.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sge_types.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/sgepasswd.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/submit.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man1/qmon.1.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_ca.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/pam_sge-qrsh-setup.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/pam_sge_authorize.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_coshepherd.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_execd.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_shepherd.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_qmaster.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man8/sge_shadowd.8.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/jsv_script_interface.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_attributes.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_jobcontrol.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_jobtemplate.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_misc.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_session.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_submit.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man3/drmaa_wait.3.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/access_list.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/accounting.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/bootstrap.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/calendar_conf.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/checkpoint.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/complex.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/host_aliases.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/host_conf.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/hostgroup.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/project.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/qtask.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/queue_conf.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/remote_startup.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/reporting.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sched_conf.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_aliases.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_conf.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_pe.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_priority.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_qstat.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_request.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sge_resource_quota.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/sgepasswd.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/share_tree.5.gz adding /corp/tools/grid/v8_1_0/man/man5/user.5.gz [wagrid03.ciena.com(rmaes)]-> ~ 127> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Love,,, [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:13 AM To: Maes, Richard Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gridengine users] 8.1.0 appears to have old manpages. "Maes, Richard" <[email protected]> writes: > Sorry about rebirthing an old thread, but it's too late to change the > channel now... > > I finally got around to looking at this man page issue again. I > descended to the man1 directory and did a ls -lart (only a partial > info shown for brevity) Submit.1.gz is present and qsub.1 is soft > linked to it. Note that I perform the groff on the qsub and it returns > a fatal error below. Groff doesn't take compressed input, but at least most recent ones of the many man implementations do. Also it's not necessary to format the pages ("catman") in any system I know since Irix-<something>, so the cat versions aren't generated. > If I instead run this on submit.1, then I get the 8.1.0 man page as > expected. If I perform a 'man submit' then I get the 8.1.0 man page > as well, but a man qsub gives me a man page from 2003. Is there some > obvious thing about man pages and soft links that I am missing here? You need to install the man pages and run makewhatis(1), mandb(1), or whatever your system uses to update the whatis list and/or mandb index. Then set MANPATH to include the SGE man directory ahead of the system one with the useless POSIX version of qsub et al. If you have compressed pages, make sure the links are from .gz to .gz. The makewhatis stanza in the 8.1.0 rpm was wrong on Red Hat, but I think that was fixed in the -2 versions, and that doesn't look like an rpm installation. I reckoned it wasn't worth dealing with compressed versions in the end and dropped that in 8.1.1. -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
