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Why doesn't man pay attention to $MANPATH? Here's what happens when
I try to access a man page that's in my man path. Note that it works
when I specify the path using -M. I'm running the bash shell.

phil$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/lang/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/home/gibson/man
phil$ ls /usr/local/man/man1/mtools.1
/usr/local/man/man1/mtools.1
phil$ man mtools
No manual entry for mtools.
phil$ man -M /usr/local/man mtools

MTOOLS(1)                USER COMMANDS                  MTOOLS(1)

NAME
     Mtools - a collection of tools for manipulating MSDOS files

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Now, I've just installed mtools, and I've put the man page in
/usr/local/man. Do I need to run some sort of "make" to enter
the man page into a man database?

John

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Quote:>Now, I've just installed mtools, and I've put the man page in
>/usr/local/man. Do I need to run some sort of "make" to enter
>the man page into a man database?

Try using catman, I think with the -w option if you don't want
the /cat? directories and files created.  man catman will tell
you what to do.  It updates the windex file, which I think is
what you also need to do.

However, it should still find the man page in /ust/local/man/man1
(or whatever) as long as mtools.1 is in that directory.  (The
extension on the man page must match the ending of the name of
the man subdir that it's in).

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Tony
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: Why doesn't man pay attention to $MANPATH? Here's what happens when
: I try to access a man page that's in my man path. Note that it works
: when I specify the path using -M. I'm running the bash shell.

: (deleted)

How about running /usr/lib/makewhatis ? (Need to be root..)

 % /usr/lib/makewhatis /usr/local/man

It creates windex at the directory, and man correctly works, for my case.

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