On 2006-07-13 (Thu) 13:25:04 [+0000], David Christensen wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set > > $MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work > > correctly. > > Now I understand: > > > The environment variable MANPATH should in general not be set, as > > that will override the effects of /etc/manpath.config. >
I ran into and had to solve this problem myself when first coming to FreeBSD, recently, as my transported Linux bash configs contained MANPATH=$MANPATH:/custom/manpath. What I never figured out was the rationale for this. Anyone mind me asking what's wrong with MANPATH or why manpath.config is exclusively favored? For instance, while I have a /usr/lib/man.conf on my Linux system and can set the default manpath there, man happily coexists with any MANPATH. How does one add a custom manpath without root privileges? Etc. Just curious; thanks. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
