I recently have become curious with Illumos distributions, at the present time, OmniOS. One thing I've come to expect is being able to simply type "man ls" for example to figure out how to use system tools. However, running man on OmniOS has provided nothing, nor does it seem to be available
Code:
~ » which man man: aliased to nocorrect man
However, the above behavior only happens in zsh, where with sh I get an actual path:
Code:
user@omni:~$ which man /usr/bin/man
Is there a different command or something? Every time I try to search for the manual for a command I always get "No manual entry for <command>". I've tried both in zsh and sh using man and man -s to check different sections
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)
Hi,
I want to install man pages package from solaris 10.
Solaris 10 has already been installed on my servor but I have to add the man pages packages. I search for a long time on internet this package but I didn't find a compatible one... So I downloaded Solaris 10 from Sun site to get this... (1 Reply)
Hello sir,
I am using FEDORA 9.
I wanted to know why do we have ".1" extension in the archives of man pages. I know we are giving format.
I want to know the importance or purpose of this format.
Can you please tell me :confused: (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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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
manpath
MANPATH(1) BSD General Commands Manual MANPATH(1)NAME
manpath -- display search path for manual pages
SYNOPSIS
manpath [-Ldq]
DESCRIPTION
The manpath utility determines the user's manual search path from the user's PATH, and local configuration files. This result is echoed to
the standard output.
-L Output manual locales list instead of the manual path.
-d Print extra debugging information.
-q Suppresses warning messages.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The manpath utility constructs the manual path from two sources:
1. From each component of the user's PATH for the first of:
- pathname/man
- pathname/MAN
- If pathname ends with /bin: pathname/../man
Note: Special logic exists to make /bin and /usr/bin look in /usr/share/man for manual files.
2. The configuration files listed in the FILES section for MANPATH entries.
The information from these locations is then concatenated together.
If the -L flag is set, the manpath utility will search the configuration files listed in the FILES section for MANLOCALE entries.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of manpath:
MANLOCALES If set with the -L flag, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding any other configuration found on the
system.
MANPATH If set, causes the utility to display a warning and the value, overriding any other configuration found on the system.
PATH Influences the manual path as described in the IMPLEMENTATION NOTES.
FILES
/etc/man.conf
System configuration file.
/usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf
Local configuration files.
SEE ALSO apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1), man.conf(5)BSD September 1, 2010 BSD