topic Re: catman?? in Operating System - HP-UX

catman??

Joe Profaizer — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:31:37 GMT

I just swinstalled sudo and gzip onto my system. How do I get their respective man pages to be inclusive of the global man pages?

Thanks!

Re: catman??

Thierry Poels_1 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:33:44 GMT

hi,

just add the respective directories to your MANPATH (/etc/MANPATH ?).
Afterwards you can run catman again if you want to use "man -k".

good luck,
Thierry.

Re: catman??

fg_1 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:42:47 GMT

Joe

Run the following command:

./etc/catman -w

This will build your manpages.

Gl.

Re: catman??

Joe Profaizer — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:33:17 GMT

All there are is /man subdirectories but no cat files. I added the path and ran catman -w to no avail. For instance in gzip there are the following directory structure:

/opt/gzip/man

Under this is a directory man1 with files named gunzip.1, gzcat.1, etc....

In sudo there is the following directory structure:

/opt/sudo/man

Under this are subdirectories /man5 and /man8

Within these directories are files named sudo.8 and others.

Still kind of confused. Please advise.

Thanks...

Re: catman??

Thierry Poels_1 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:42:53 GMT

hi,

add /opt/gzip/man & /opt/sudo/man to /etc/MANPATH, log out an in again to get your $MANPATH variable updated. Afterwards the man pages should be available. And catman can be executed if wished.

good luck,
Thierry.

Re: catman??

Craig Rants — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:48:08 GMT

Joe,
If you ever need to read an unistalled manpage in a pinch run

nroff -man manfile | more

You could also script this to run just like man.

GL,
C