[lug] man pages RH 7.2 -- SOLVED

[rm at fabula.de]

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 "*".
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary

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.

  Ralf