On 20:48 15 Dec 2003, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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=$QTDIR/man | fi Your test command is busted. You want this: if [ -n "$MANPATH" ] or if [ "$MANPATH" ] if you're overly trusting. Note the spaces. Bust generally you should have a MANPATH anyway, so you can just go: MANPATH=$MANPATH:$QTDIR/man export MANPATH and not bother with the "if" statement at all. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ ...the greatest part of our romances in the English language... stop just at the marriage, and give no view of the disgust, repentance, and unhappiness that ensues. - Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
