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Operating Systems Solaris man and ldm man Post 302290162 by StarSol on Sunday 22nd of February 2009 04:09:02 AM

02-22-2009

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I found the solution. By default, MANPATH is set to /usr/share/man (I do not know where though). When I set the MANPATH in the .profile, it overwrites the default. To resolve that, /usr/share/man needs to be added as well. The .profile would look like:

TERM=vt100;export TERM
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/share:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/opt/SUNWldm/bin:/opt/SUNWldm/man:/usr/X/bin:/usr/X11/bin
export PATH
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/opt/SUNWldm/man
export MANPATH

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