I am having problems installing new man pages on a FreeBSD 3.3 system. They are the man entrys for a new software that I have installed and I would like them to be searchable from man. I have run Make whatis and tried to adjust the manpath.config. I also have played with catman but I think the... (1 Reply)
Hello ,
I just installed openssh in my system . I actually tried to man sshd but it says no entry , though there is a man directory in the installation which have the man pages for sshd .
Can anyone tell me how should i install these man pages .
DP (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've written now a man pages, but I don't knwo how to get 'man' to view them. Where have I to put this files, which directories are allowed??
THX Bensky (3 Replies)
When reading man pages, I notice that sometimes commands are follwed by a number enclosed in parenthesis. such as:
mkdir calls the mkdir(2) system call.
What exactly does this mean? (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am using solaris. I have to load the some man pages on different node from solaris. I have no basic idea regarding this. can anyone plz give me some basic ideas so that i can proceed.
Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ravi rajeev
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Hi,
Any chance we could have an input pane in the forums
that targets a man page and whose content is output to the bottom
of the man page in this way forming extended man pages with additional know how?
Thanks,
Steve (9 Replies)
hi all
i have installed veritas storage foundation 5.1 in my sun blade 150 which running with sun solaris 5.10. Veritas commands manual pages are located in /opt/VRTS/man/man1m directory. But if i give "man vxassist" It says "no manual entry for vxassist". How to resolve this? (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a small query, in solaris the man pages get displayed on half of the terminal , can i get a full terminal or full screen display ?:) (2 Replies)
Can anyone supply me with the man pages for:
omnidatalist
omnibarlist
omnisap.exe
I prefer the source man pages in nroff format.
A clue about the software bundles which supply these man pages is fine as well.
OS: HP-UX
TIA (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: sb008
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SYNOPSIS
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free documentation resources including guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and man-pages to
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