man question

[Ruben de Groot]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:30:55AM +0100, Didier Wiroth typed:
> Hi,
> 
> I've compiled and installed software by my own in this directory:
> /home/me/custom/
> 
> In this directory I have the following directories and subdirectories:
> /home/me/custom/man
> /home/me/custom/man/man1
> /home/me/custom/man/man8
> 
> The man8 and man1 directory contains some .8 and .1 man files.
> 
> For example /home/me/custom/man/man8/logrotate.8
> When I enter: man 8 logrotate 
> I get: No entry for logrotate in section 8 of the manual
> or 
> man logrotate: 
> No manual entry for logrotate
> 
> What do I have to do, to be able to use/view those man files, only ME? I don't want to modif manpath.config (as this is a global configuration file)?

Look at the manpath(1) manpage. If you add /home/me/custom to your $PATH,
/home/me/custom/man will be automatically added to your search path.

Ruben

> 
> thx
> 
> 
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