[X-Unix] 10.4: manpath seems not to be working properly

[Kent Behrends]

On May 17, 2005, at 06:59, Jason Verlander wrote:

> After _upgrading_ to 10.4 I've found that manpath is not analyzing  
> and finding man pages for items that have been placed into /usr/ 
> local/bin with the man pages being put into /usr/local/man. I have / 
> usr/local/bin in my path and manpath should automatically add /usr/ 
> local/man to my search path it seems. At least, that's the way the  
> manpath man page seems to indicates.
>

I also lost that search path. I added it to /usr/share/misc/man.conf:

MANPATH /usr/local/man

Then I rebuild the whatis database:

sudo makewhatis -w

You can verify the path man searches with:

man --path


Kent Behrends
BEHR Consulting International
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