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Old 12-27-2011
Missing man pages on SunOS Rel.5.10
Hello,
last week I installed SunOS Release 5.10 on my "new" 220R.
Unfortunately there seem to be no man pages, although I installed the End-User software package.

Yes I know there are lots of similar topics and I hope you will help me nevertheless.

Which further information do you need?

Code:
# man                                                                          
Syntax: man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ] [ -s section ] name ...
        man [-M path] -k keyword ...                                           
        man [-M path] -f file ...                                              
# man man                                                                      
No manual entry for man.                                      
# man ifconfig                                                                 
No manual entry for ifconfig.                                 
# man iostat                                                                   
No manual entry for iostat.                                   
#

Regards,
pc
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 12-27-2011 at 05:18 AM..
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Old 12-27-2011
Try installing "SUNWman" from your installation media.
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pseudocoder
# 3  
Old 12-27-2011
That also may be a problem with the MANPATH environment variable. The default install always puts up the man pages....

Code:
find / -type d -name man

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
Code:
man man

does give results I would assume the correct packages are on there.
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pseudocoder
# 4  
Old 12-27-2011
What is the output of
Code:
pkginfo -l | grep SUNWman

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pseudocoder
# 5  
Old 12-27-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
Unfortunately there seem to be no man pages, although I installed the End-User software package.
That's precisely the reason why you are missing the SUNWman package. The SUNWCuser package cluster doesn't contain it. It is only included in the SUNWCprog (Developer) and higher clusters.
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pseudocoder
# 6  
Old 12-28-2011
MySQL
@bartus11
I will do, thanks.

@jim_mcnamara
"Your" command created an output of 14 directories.

Code:
# find / -type d -name man
/usr/share/webconsole/man
/usr/share/man
/usr/openwin/share/man
/usr/lib/gnome-private/share/man
/usr/lib/cc-ccr/man
/usr/postgres/8.2/man
.
.
.
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/man

@fpmurphy
Nothing Smilie

@jlliagre
Okay, thank you for the explaination. Nice to know the real reason.

@all
I'll keep you up-to-date regarding this topic.

Following are the steps which I'm going to try one after another:

1) Try adding the 14 direcotories (see my answer to jim_mcnamara above) to PATH
2) Afterwards I'd follow bartus' approach
3) If that also fails (no.2), I'd simply reinstall the whole system and choose "Developer" or higher.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPDATE:
Now all is working fine. I just added the missing package like this:
Code:
# cd /cdrom/sol_10_811_sparc/Solaris_10/Product
# pkgadd -d . SUNWman

I decided to start immediately with the installation of the missing package because it was not listed in "pkginfo".

Thank you for your support Smilie
Last edited by pseudocoder; 12-29-2011 at 02:20 AM..
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Old 12-29-2011
update ^^
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