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Top Forums Programming Irix 5.3 Post 8754 by loadc on Wednesday 17th of October 2001 10:45:58 AM

10-17-2001

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Okay-

I'm back, and done with what distracted me, sorry...

Well, what I've done at home before is to basically share out, via NFS, teh directory with the man pages on it. This is usually /usr/share/man, or other similar area. keep in mind, many programs come with man pages that need to be put into the man page directories and you then need to re-catman them. this would need to be done for each piece of software, on the man-host, as you added it, if you wanted man pages, that is. The other issue arises if you are using more than one platform. If you have sun and SGI boxes and are trying to use the same man pages for both, you will get a lot of incorrect syntax and pages for non-existant commands.
Now, assuming you have all the same platform, and you have corralled all of the man pages into a given filesystem.directory on a given server, and you have mount points set on all of your otehr servers AND you have shared the directory with the man pages in it AAAANNNNDDD set the MANPATH var on all mounting systems to the mountpoint for the share, then you need to mount the directory on each server, (might want to add this to the (v)fstab, as a mount on boot)then you will want to run catman on the mounting machines to build the index (or updatedb on linux). This should allow you to do what you are wanting, should you desire to be really cool and lower your bandwidth use and make the systems a little more efficient, you could do all of the NFS stuff with automounter.
I believe that Neo had suggested using NFS, and this is how I would do this, I believe that an old solaris book I had went over something similar, back when sun actually advocated diskless workstations. I had to setup a boot server for Solaris 2.4 something or other, and part of that was network hosting the man pages on a given server and hosting the /usr on another and a /opt on another, etc. Basically because you had 250-500 Meg of disk on each box and you could do more with this setup than trying to get full systems on each box.
Hope this helped, good luck, post back anything else needed.

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DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)						     Debhelper						     DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)

NAME

       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmanpages [debhelperoptions] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build
       directories.

       This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
       dh_installman(1) instead.

       dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all subdirectories for filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real files
       are looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses file(1) to verify that the files are in the correct format. Then, based on the files'
       extensions, it installs them into the correct man directory.

       All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by dh_installmanpages.  This is useful if by default it installs some man pages that
       you do not want to be installed.

       After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so, it changes them to
       symlinks.

OPTIONS

       file ...
	   Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look like valid man pages.

BUGS

       dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds into all packages you tell it to act on, since it can't tell what package the man
       pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p to work around this, or use the much better dh_installman(1) program
       instead).

       Files ending in .man will be ignored.

       Files specified as parameters that contain spaces in their filenames will not be processed properly.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

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AUTHOR

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