Re: mandb, man, manpath question

2000-02-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > > After installing a few potato packages the manpages of some of them are > > > not available although they are there. > > > > I hope th

Re: mandb, man, manpath question

2000-02-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to understand how man works. I have a mixed slink/potato > system. It seems to me that potato puts the manpages in /usr/share/man. So > I added /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf and also in ~/.bash_profile > (the latter apparently causes "m

mandb, man, manpath question

2000-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to understand how man works. I have a mixed slink/potato system. It seems to me that potato puts the manpages in /usr/share/man. So I added /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf and also in ~/.bash_profile (the latter apparently causes "man" to ignore /etc/manpath.conf). After installin