man pages

[Jasmin Berube]

How do i desactivate all man pages?
(HP-UX 10.20)

[Shannon Petry · Accepted solution]

I think you mean remove all man pages????

If so, dont know why you would want to, but you can just rename the directories that the files live in. This is safer than just removing the files if you or someone else descides later to re-activate man pages.
The man pages live in "/usr/share/man" and have many sub folders. Just renaming "/usr/share/man" to "/usr/share/man.old" should remove the ability to use man pages.

Best regards!
Shannon

[Andy Monks]

You could also swremove the man pages.

Something like :-

swlist -l fileset -a name | grep "\-MAN" > /tmp/manpages

then 'check' the /tmp/manpages files to ensure that all the filesets are really man pages. It's could pick something else up. In which case edit the file.

Then :-

swremove -f /tmp/manpages

[Alan Riggs]

As stated in the other thread, the easiest way to prevent users from accessing man pages is to unset the MANPATH variable in either /etc/profile or the individual user's .profile.

Alternatively, you would need to swremove all man page documentations and then find/remove all manpages installed by poducts that do not register with sw.