I'm trying to figure out MANPATH and man-db 2.3.10-68. First of all, for various reasons, my lprng setup is compiled locally, and runs out of /usr/local/lprng/bin. It's man pages are in /usr/local/lprng/man.
I've editted /etc/manpath.config, and told it to map tje PATH entry /usr/local/lprng/bin to the MANPATH /usr/local/lprng/man using MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/lprng/bin /usr/local/lprng/man Similarly, I told it to squirrel away the cat pages in /var/catman/lprng with MANDB_MAP /usr/local/lprng/man /var/catman/lprng So then I do a 'man lpr' and get %man lpr No manual entry for lpr However, %ls /usr/local/lprng/man/man1 cancel.1 lpbanner.1 lpq.1 lpraccnt.1 lpstat.1 pclbanner.1 lp.1 lpf.1 lpr.1 lprm.1 monitor.1 psbanner.1 So perhaps the manpath isn't right. So I run the manpath command and get %manpath /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/lprng/man Looks good, no. But man doesn't run. Strangely, however, if I do the following %export MANPATH=`manpath` %man lpr Reformatting lpr(1), please wait... Everything I can find in the man-db documentation say's that if MANPATH isn't set, it just gets the output of manpath. But apparently this isn't the case. Ideas? I'd like to sort this out since I have a lot of packages installed like this. -- Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
