Re: man path problem

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On Monday 15 December 2003 09:48 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've got a question about the man pages.  On my cron problem a lot of
> you told me to check the man pages.  I couldn't find any man pages for
> cron.  I couldn't find any man pages for anything, so I think there's a
> shell variable somewhere that needs to be set.  I checked the $MANPATH
> variable, but the only location in it was the one that the Qt
> documentation told me to set.  I have included the code that Qt told me
> to insert into /etc/profile:
>
> if [$MANPATH]
> then
>    MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
> else
>    MANPATH=$QTDIR/man
> fi
>
> Please help me!!!

Check to see where man will look with the "manpath" command.
[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ manpath
/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man

Note that MANPATH isn't set:
[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ echo $MANPATH

[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$

Now, set MANPATH:
[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ export MANPATH=/usr/lib/qt3
[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ manpath
/usr/lib/qt3

man will now be unable to find manpages....

[mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ man cron
man: No such file or directory
No manual entry for cron

Try unsetting MANPATH with:

unset MANPATH
Manpages should now work again.

You can then add the path for QT to /etc/man.config, and remove the 
/etc/profile entry that is currently breaking your man config. ;)

Hope that helps,
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