[lug] man pages RH 7.2 -- SOLVED

Gary Hodges Gary.Hodges at noaa.gov
Thu Oct 25 11:48:11 MDT 2001


rm at fabula.de wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:18:09AM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > Thanks for all the help.  As often is the case with me, it was a user induced problem.  I
> > had copied over from my old system all my dot files, e.g. .bashrc, and the MANPATH was being
> > set there and also in .bash_profile.  I think I was correct in that the man.config settings
> > were being overwritten
>
> -- by my doing!  I grep'ed my home directory
> for MANPATH, but didn't
>
> > realize I needed to search ".*" and not just "*".
>
> Just being curious: how was MANPATH set in your .bash_profile?
> I always try to set environment settings like this:
>  export MANPATH=$MANPATH:~/man
> i.e. appending my personal settings to the system ones and not just
> overwriting them.

In .bash_profile:
MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man
export MANPATH

Looks like the key here is that I was missing the $MANPATH part.  I guess it wasn't listing
/usr/lib/perl5/man since that path didn't exist.

Gary







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