Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:25:04 -0700 From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken? Message-ID: <000f01c6a6ba$6d1d4340$0a10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> In-Reply-To: <20060714014823.c4d0b759.nick@nickwithers.com>
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Nick Withers wrote:
> Unfortunately (or at least as I understand it), the contents of
> "/etc/manpath.config" don't matter if you have the "MANPATH"
> environment variable set. Did you happen to set this yourself
> (i.e., explicitly)?
Yes:
2006-07-13 13:09:50 dpchrist@k62350 ~
$ grep MANPATH .*
.bash_history:echo $MANPATH
.bash_profile: MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/cvs/man
.bash_profile: MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/man
.bash_profile: MANPATH=$MANPATH:$HOME/share/man
.bash_profile:export MANPATH=:$HOME/local/man
2006-07-13 13:09:58 dpchrist@k62350 ~
$ echo $MANPATH
:/home/dpchrist/local/man
I use the same .bash_profile and .bashrc everywhere, with conditionals
for various platforms and configurations. Tightening up the
conditionals, logging out, and logging in again:
2006-07-13 13:12:55 dpchrist@k62350 ~
$ echo $MANPATH
2006-07-13 13:12:56 dpchrist@k62350 ~
$ manpath
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/perl/man
2006-07-13 13:12:59 dpchrist@k62350 ~
$ man man
Fixed!
Micah wrote:
> That's where http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes in handy
Yes, that's useful.
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set
> $MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work
> correctly.
Now I understand:
> The environment variable MANPATH should in general not be set, as
> that will override the effects of /etc/manpath.config.
Thanks everyone for your help. :-)
David
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