man question
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Jan 21 15:50:27 PST 2004
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:30:55AM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote:
> 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)?
setenv MANPATH `manpath`:/home/me/custom/man
Cheers,
Matthew
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