Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:29:48 +0100 From: Jonathan Amery <jdamery@colon.colondot.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/30940: manpath documentation confusing or confused Message-ID: <E15nmHc-000F3Q-00@colon.colondot.net>
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>Number: 30940
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: manpath documentation confusing or confused
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 30 12:30:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jonathan Amery
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Chiark Orbital / :.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD colon.colondot.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Sep 22 18:07:46 BST 2001 root@colon.colondot.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/COLONDOT i386
>Description:
The manpath manpage reads:
Manpath tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system
defaults and the user's PATH, echoing the result to the standard output.
Warnings and errors are written to the standard error. If a directory in
the user's path is not listed in the /etc/manpath.config file, manpath
looks for the subdirectories man or MAN. If they exist, they are added
to the search path.
Which suggests that the manpages for /foo/bar/bin are looked for in
/foo/bar/bin/man and not in /foo/bar/man (where they probably are, and
it certainly does appear to look).
>How-To-Repeat:
Should be obvious.
>Fix:
Discover what manpath actually does do then document that.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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