That also may be a problem with the MANPATH environment variable. The default install always puts up the man pages....
All of these directories need to be in MANPATH if you want complete "coverage"
The default for man is not /usr/sbin/share/man where the iostat man page lives,
since
does give results I would assume the correct packages are on there.
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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)
Hi,
How can I see the man pages for while, for, if and other shell script control structures.. I can't say just "man while" at least on hp unix...
Do I need to use any special option?
Thank you!
Vishnu. (2 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)
Discussion started by: dangral
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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 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)
"how to see the man pages related to pthreads". while executing the command man pthread_t . im getting the following error!!!!!
No manual entry for pthread. (3 Replies)
How would I go about making a list of all man pages beginning with the letter "a"?
I have tried:
man a*
man *
man
man {a}*
man {a*}
man "a*"
man 'a'*
man 'a*' (5 Replies)
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makewhatis
MAKEWHATIS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MAKEWHATIS(8)NAME
makewhatis -- create whatis database
SYNOPSIS
makewhatis [-a] [-i column] [-n name] [-o file] [-v] [-L] [directories ...]
DESCRIPTION
The makewhatis utility collects the names and short descriptions from all the unformatted man pages in the directories and puts them into a
file used by the whatis(1) and apropos(1) commands. Directories may be separated by colons instead of spaces. If no directories are speci-
fied, the contents of the MANPATH environment variable will be used, or if that is not set, the default directory /usr/share/man will be pro-
cessed.
The options are as follows:
-a Appends to the output file(s) instead of replacing them. The output will be sorted with duplicate lines removed, but may have
obsolete entries.
-i column Indents the description by column characters. The default value is 24.
-n name Uses name instead of whatis.
-o file Outputs all lines to the file instead of */man/whatis.
-v Makes makewhatis more verbose about what it is doing.
-L Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified in the standard environment variables.
ENVIRONMENT
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the -L option is used.
MACHINE If set, its value is used to override the current machine type when searching machine specific subdirectories.
MANPATH Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on the command line.
FILES
/usr/share/man Default directory to process if the MANPATH environment variable is not set.
*/man/whatis The default output file.
DIAGNOSTICS
The makewhatis utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO apropos(1), whatis(1)HISTORY
The makewhatis command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
AUTHORS
The makewhatis program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider. The current version of makewhatis was
rewritten in C by John Rochester.
BSD May 12, 2002 BSD