From: Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM (mbruntel@att.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 08:18:57 EDT
OK. it was a simple little thing... I Presumed that the main /etc/profile
which set the MANPATH actually exported it too ... oops?! shows how something
can go wrong.
EXPORT MANPATH!
oh yes. catman -M /usr/local/man CMDNAME does work too. But without manpath
set, it cant find anything.
Thanks again
--- I (stupidly ) said: Here's an annoying thing that's likely bothering someone else too: ..snip.. (Man command: question (have cmds in multiple directories, but cant get anything out) Now: My .profile man path (ksh), shows MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man Note that I had used the catman command (helpfully referred to by an "appropos" command. However, even the catman -M /usr/local/man command (even with the p (show me, ) wouldn't get a result. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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