Perhaps I am not understanding this MANPATH stuff
I'm trying to figure out MANPATH and man-db 2.3.10-68.
First of all, for various reasons, my lprng setup is compiled locally,
and runs out of /usr/local/lprng/bin. It's man pages are in
/usr/local/lprng/man.
I've editted /etc/manpath.config, and told it to map tje PATH entry
/usr/local/lprng/bin to the MANPATH /usr/local/lprng/man using
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/lprng/bin /usr/local/lprng/man
Similarly, I told it to squirrel away the cat pages in
/var/catman/lprng
with
MANDB_MAP /usr/local/lprng/man /var/catman/lprng
So then I do a 'man lpr' and get
%man lpr
No manual entry for lpr
However,
%ls /usr/local/lprng/man/man1
cancel.1 lpbanner.1 lpq.1 lpraccnt.1 lpstat.1 pclbanner.1
lp.1 lpf.1 lpr.1 lprm.1 monitor.1 psbanner.1
So perhaps the manpath isn't right. So I run the manpath command and
get
%manpath
/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/lprng/man
Looks good, no. But man doesn't run. Strangely, however, if I do the
following
%export MANPATH=`manpath`
%man lpr
Reformatting lpr(1), please wait...
Everything I can find in the man-db documentation say's that if
MANPATH isn't set, it just gets the output of manpath. But apparently
this isn't the case.
Ideas? I'd like to sort this out since I have a lot of packages
installed like this.
--
Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
bofh@me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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