the 'man' command on my system isn't finding a manpage that is
in a MANPATH directory, or even when I specify the path directly:
Code:
12:56pm ilya@node1390 /idi/sabetilab/ilya/usr/share/man $ man -M . xemacs
No manual entry for xemacs
12:56pm ilya@node1390 /idi/sabetilab/ilya/usr/share/man $ man ./xemacs.1
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
- (press RETURN)
...manpage appears...
manpages in other dirs in the manpath are found
(including /idi/sabetilab/ilya/usr/man ), but not in /idi/sabetilab/ilya/usr/share/man .
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manpath is:
I was wonderiong if ther is a way for a user to add a man page specific to thier account. similar to copying the .1 or .1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1 "cp *.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1". Except for using another folder as I don't have access to /usr/share/man/man1. I would think that this might involve... (1 Reply)
Hi, I put an expiration on a few id's that I want to remove now. From the man page
-e expire Specify the future date on which a login can no
longer be used; after this date, no user will be
able to access this login. This option is useful
... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for the man page for scp version 1.2.27
I have an old redhat server that has a few large scripts that use this version and I want to know what the -A flag does and the man page is not on there. (4 Replies)
Man page is not working my system. It is giving the following the following error
> man ls
gdbm fatal: read error
with debug option
> man -d ls
...
....
...
...
using less as pager
checking for locale en_US
add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man... (4 Replies)
Help,
it seem that i am unable to get man help form solaris 10.
I am running SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
when ever i try to man a command what i get is "No manual entry" like the one below.
# man grep
No manual entry for grep.
# man ls
No manual entry for ls.... (8 Replies)
What does the last change means in man page .. does that this man page has not been updated since 2003 or something else ?
newfs-options
The options are documented in the newfs man page.
SunOS 5.10 Last change: 9 Dec 2003 1
System... (2 Replies)
I realise that with GNU 'info' a lot of developers become, dare I say it, quite lazy when it comes to providing a well written man page - and some argue they're not needed at all. But I find, in the products that I develop, that man pages are used more often for quick reference, and therefore the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: cambridge
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
catman
CATMAN(1) BSD General Commands Manual CATMAN(1)NAME
catman -- preformat man pages
SYNOPSIS
catman [-fLnrv] [directories ...]
DESCRIPTION
The catman utility preformats all the man pages in directories using the nroff -man command. Directories may be separated by colons instead
of spaces. If no directories are specified, the contents of the MANPATH environment variable is used, or if that is not set, the default
directory /usr/share/man is processed.
The options are as follows:
-f Force all man pages to be reformatted even if the corresponding cat page is newer.
-L Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified in the standard environment variables.
-n Print out what would be done instead of performing any formatting.
-r Scan for and remove ``junk'' files that are neither man pages nor their corresponding formatted cat pages.
-v Cause catman to be more verbose about what it is doing.
ENVIRONMENT
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the -L option is used.
MACHINE If set, overrides the current machine type when searching for machine specific man page subdirectories.
MACHINE_ARCH
If set, overrides the current architecture when searching for architecture specific man page 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.
EXIT STATUS
The catman utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO makewhatis(1), man(1), nroff(1)HISTORY
A previous version of the catman command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
AUTHORS
John Rochester
BSD December 3, 2005 BSD