help accessing mdbtools man pages in /usr/local/share/man - SOLVED

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 22:34:43 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 03:30:29PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, January 16, 2012 13:49
> 
> > Just use `man /full/path/to/the/manpage`. Also check man(1) and
> > man.conf(5) on how to specify additional MANPATHs.
> 
> Thanks Yuri! As per man.conf(5), I created /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mdbtools.conf
> to add /usr/local/share/man to the manpath (perhaps it could be named more
> correctly "linux.conf", but for now the only manpages there are from mdbtools).

I hope "rc.d" was a typo? :-) If not, you want /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf.


Yuri


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