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# 1  
Old 12-09-2007
Unable to get help from man page

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.
# man useradd
No manual entry for useradd.
# man mkdir
No manual entry for mkdir.

could some one help, what i can do?
# 2  
Old 12-09-2007
Is /usr/share/man populated?
If it is populated, check your MANPATH enviromental variable setting.
If not, check output of pkginfo to see if SUNWman is listed.
If SUNWman is not listed, you need to install it using pkgadd to get the manpages.
# 3  
Old 12-09-2007
which software-cluster do you use during install? please post the output of:

# cat /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER

greets,
DN2
# 4  
Old 12-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
which software-cluster do you use during install? please post the output of:

# cat /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER

greets,
DN2
I am not using any cluster, simply install developer custom package, the output are as:

# cat /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER
CLUSTER=SUNWCuser
# 5  
Old 12-11-2007
SUNWCuser comes WITHOUT the man pages... i allways use SUNWCxall as my install cluster. uses more space but with 80gb+ hard disks this is no problem...
# 6  
Old 12-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
Is /usr/share/man populated?
If it is populated, check your MANPATH enviromental variable setting.
If not, check output of pkginfo to see if SUNWman is listed.
If SUNWman is not listed, you need to install it using pkgadd to get the manpages.
just begin to pickup Solaris, need your help to elaborate:

what do you mean by populated?
# env |grep MANPATH
MANPATH=/usr/dt/man:/usr/man:/usr/openwin/share/man

From the pkginfo SUNWman is not listed.
# pkginfo|grep SUNWman

how to pkgadd manpages?

Thanks
# 7  
Old 12-11-2007
is it a problem to do a clean new install of your machine? if not, reinstall and use ALL+OEM for yout packages during the installation. its much easier...
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