From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 20:49:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC75106566C for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:49:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from sirius.xvoid.org (sirius.xvoid.org [IPv6:2001:470:28:4ba:20c:29ff:fe62:9a22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868918FC17 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sirius.xvoid.org (yuri@sirius.xvoid.org [IPv6:::1]) by sirius.xvoid.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0GKn58M067411; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:49:05 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by sirius.xvoid.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q0GKn5qc067410; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:49:05 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sirius.xvoid.org: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:49:05 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: Dale Scott Message-ID: <20120116204905.GD1241@sirius.xvoid.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help accessing mdbtools man pages in /usr/local/share/man X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:49:07 -0000 On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:27:31PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote: > I installed mdbtools from source on github and it put its man pages in > "/usr/local/share/man/man1", where the default man command doesn't find > them (although "man -M /usr/local/share/man mdb-export" works). Just use `man /full/path/to/the/manpage`. Also check man(1) and man.conf(5) on how to specify additional MANPATHs. > From "man hier", it looks like the man pages should have been put into > "/usr/local/man". Is that correct? Also, the pages aren't in gz format > (just "mdb-export.1"). Is there a typical workaround? (I expect this is > not uncommon for an app coming from the Linux world?). It's not uncommon, but such stuff should be fixed when porting something from "Linux world" and manpages should go to /usr/local/man, as hier(7) tells. Yuri