Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:19:31PM +0100, Guido Tschakert wrote: >> The first and the last entry are both spamd (8), but spamassassin from >> ports has overwritten /usr/local/man/man8/spamd.8 from the system (which >> I am looking for) >> >> I don't know if there is an easy solution for this (I don't want to call >> it a problem), but I think this shouldn't happen. >> > > you can change the order man(1) looks for its pages in /etc/man.conf, i > think. but probably best is to contact the port maintainer and ask them > to rename the page to stop it squashing base spamd(8). > > jmc > Hi,
I already have send my mail to the maintainer of the port. I have looked in /etc/man.conf and read the manual: you can change the order of the subdirs with _subdir, but the order of how the sections are searched (with _default) seems to be alphabetically and /usr/local comes before /usr/share. (correct me, if I'm wrong) Digging in man (1) gives me the following help: $ man -w spamd /usr/local/man/man1/spamd.1 /usr/share/man/cat8/spamd.0 /usr/local/man/man8/spamd.8 $ more /usr/share/man/cat8/spamd.0 BTW, I was wrong with saying the port overwrites the manual of the system-spamd. The system manuals are stored in /usr/share/man while the port manuals go to /usr/local/man, as some guys told me privatly. Stupid me, thanks guido
