[SunHELP] read manpage

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Sangbutsarakum, Patai wrote:

| Dear listers,
| I've just install new daemon to my Solaris 2.6.
| After I've install it copy man page to /usr/share/man/man/*.8.gz.
| I have add this directory to MANPATH already.
|
| MANPATH=/usr/share/man/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH
|
| but it still can't read these man pages, it still can't be found.
| Please suggest. I can't finish my work if I can't read this manpage
| there is no other document.

You've done three things wrong:

One, those man pages should be uncompressed (gzip -d *.8.gz)

Two, those man pages should be in /usr/share/man/man8/

Three, your MANPATH should be set to just /usr/share/man

/dale