Re: Realtionship between user accounts and man pages
"Noe' Franco" <nfranco@farsweb.com> writes:
> While installing a database, Postgresql-6.3, I somehow diconnected the man
> pages from root's account. Now mind you all the other accounts have access
> to man pages.
> Yes, I know that the install should be done under its own account and it
> was mostly.
> So what can be done to reattach the man pages to the account of 'root'.
> And is there any difference between that and reattaching to a regular user
> account.
My guess is that root's ~/.profile (or other user-specific shell
startup file) contains
`MANPATH="/usr/lib/postgresql-6.3/man:$MANPATH"'. If MANPATH was
previously unset, then this will break. Some other man programs
interpret trailing colon (and leading colon and `::' in the middle) as
if the system default manpath (as taken from /etc/manpath.config) were
present. Debian's standard man program does not.
If this is correct, then the solution is either to fix the man program,
or to set MANPATH in your /etc/environment (or wherever your environment
variables are usually initialised).
HTH,
pjm.
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