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Re: Man files (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: Man files (fwd)
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:05:29 -0700
Jeff Weber wrote:
> 
> Hi Anne,
> 
> I think you may be better suited to handle this one....
> 
> -Jeff
> ________________________________________      ______________________
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:11:17 -0500
> From: James R. Frysinger <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Jeff Weber <address@hidden>
> Subject: Man files
> 
> The man files in man1 and man3 of the LDM package are not accessible by
> using the man command, though they can be read by using cat, more, and
> so forth. How can I make those accessible to the man command?
> 
> Jim Frysinger
> 
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Hi Jim,

First, Jeff forwarded your email to me regarding using something other
than ping for ldmfail.  Right now I have a question in to our sys admin
regarding this, as I don't know of any benefits to not allowing ping. 
I'll get back to you on that.

Regarding the man pages, you need to add the proper path to your MANPATH
environment variable.  For example, 

setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man:<ldmhome>/man

where <ldmhome> is the location of your ldm, probably /usr/local/ldm.  I
suggestion doing this in the .cshrc file for your ldm, or whatever
configuration file your shell uses.

Alternatively, you can give the 'man' command a path with the -M
argument, e.g. 

man -M /usr/local/ldm/man pqutil


Anne
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