how do I load the man pages on hpux 11i?

[David Heard]

Hello:

I have been in the unix world for over 6 years now and know several flavors of unix except HP. I need some info on how to load the man pages & what is my best backup option? I have a HP tape library. Can someone please help???

[Mark Grant]

man pages should already be there!

Try "man man"

Best backup solution will depend on so many things. If you only have a small syste, you might want to back up just using "ignite" but you might need a big backup suite like DataProtector. Give us a little more information and I'm sure someone will be able to help you out.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Run; catman -w

And when it finishes its indexed all the manpages so you can search through them using;

man -k

The best backup tool to use is HP's free fbackup program. Its straight forward, one command, (see; man fbackup) and can talk to your tape library no problem.

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi,

try
set you manpath
to index use
# catman -w

Gideon

[doug mielke]

A great HP tool is ignite, which can create a bootable tape.

There are many choices out there, but as a start, all the ones that you are familiar with from oither unix flavors are there, cpio, tar, dd.

Our statagy is:
ignite ( make_recovery)
fbackup ( for non root filesystems, which will include our tape library client.
then Omniback for full featured data recovery,

[Emil Velez]

You can put man pages in any directory you want.

for example /opt/app1/man/man1/myman.1

then what you do is
update /etc/MANPATH

when somebody logs in and does a

# man myman

it should find it. The purpose of the /etc/MANPATH file is to locate all of the man pages. HPUX makes it real easy.

Good luck

Emil

[Bill Hassell]

There was a time (back in version 9 and maybe early 10.xx) when workstations (not servers) had a minimum system option and the man pages were left out. If this is a workstation and /usr/share/man does not contain any man page files, then you can load them from your core HP-UX install CDROM.Use swinstall and pick the filesets that have doc pages listed.

On the other hand, if there lots of man pages (more than 10,000 files), then the env variable MANPATH is probably been messed up. It should be automatically set with:

export MANPATH=$(cat /etc/MANPATH)

If it is missing, put it back into /etc/profile. You can test if this is the problem by actually running the above command.