From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8110 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2018 12:19:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8101 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2018 12:19:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BIZ_BODY,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=D*in, ALSO, synopsis, username X-HELO: mout.gmx.com Received: from mout.gmx.com (HELO mout.gmx.com) (74.208.4.200) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:19:42 +0000 Received: from johndoe65534.mail.com ([85.28.70.154]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus002 [74.208.5.15]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MK0qx-1ffVLa1btd-001ThD for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:19:39 +0200 Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: john doe Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 15:40:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 On 7/15/2018 9:21 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2018-07-15 00:39, john doe wrote: >> On 7/14/2018 10:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other >>> manpage sets and unpacked them: >>> $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/ >>> cat1/          debian@                      man1p/  mann/           SunOS-5.10/ >>> cat3/          Debian-8.1.0/                man2/   netbsd@         suse@ >>> cat5/          freebsd@                     man3/   NetBSD-7.1/     SuSE-11.3/ >>> cat7/          FreeBSD-12-current/          man3p/  openbsd@        ubuntu@ >>> cat8/          FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE/  man4/   OpenBSD-6.2/    x@ >>> centos@        hpux@                        man5/   ports@          X11R7.4/ >>> CentOS-7.1/    HP-UX-11.22/                 man6/   redhat@ >>> darwin@        man0p/                       man7/   RedHat-9-i386/ >>> Darwin-7.0.1/  man1/                        man8/   solaris@ >>> but despite reading docs, adding links and changing configs, I'm unable to get >>> man/-db to access these with or without the -m system switch. >>> I know I must be missing some essential point, but searching has not come up >>> with anything to help me fix this. >>> Has anyone here set this up and can suggest an approach that will work? >> In addition to the other answers; maybe exporting those directories in the >> 'PATH' env variable... > > I already tried listing them all at the end of man-db.conf and MANPATH. > I was talking about the env 'PATH' var and not 'MANPATH' but that does not make any difference. :) From the test I've done and using: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-creating-a-manpage/ $ cat ${HOME}/try/mann/bogus.n .\" Manpage for bogus. .\" Contact vivek@nixcraft.net.in to correct errors or typos. .TH man 8 "06 May 2010" "1.0" "bogus man page" .SH NAME bogus \- create a new LDAP user .SH SYNOPSIS bogus [USERNAME] .SH DESCRIPTION bogus is high level shell program for adding users to LDAP server. On Debian, administrators should usually use bogus.debian(8) instead. .SH OPTIONS The bogus does not take any options. However, you can supply username. .SH SEE ALSO bogus(8), passwd(5), bogus.debian(8) .SH BUGS No known bugs. .SH AUTHOR Vivek Gite (vivek@nixcraft.net.in) $ man --manpath=${HOME}/try bogus man(8) bogus man page man(8) NAME bogus - create a new LDAP user SYNOPSIS bogus [USERNAME] DESCRIPTION bogus is high level shell program for adding users to LDAP server. On Debian, administrators should usually use bogus.debian(8) instead. OPTIONS The bogus does not take any options. However, you can supply username. SEE ALSO bogus(8), passwd(5), bogus.debian(8) BUGS No known bugs. AUTHOR Vivek Gite (vivek@nixcraft.net.in) 1.0 06 May 2010 man(8) HTH -- John Doe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple