perl5.8 fixup

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Fri Mar 13 14:10:22 PDT 2009


On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Eric Hall wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:25:05AM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> I see.
>>
>> As a normal (non-sudo) user I wasn't seeing /opt/local/share/man
>> without adding the path to MANPATH.
>>
>> sudo manpath does indeed add /opt/local/share/man
>
> 	Do you have MANPATH set?  If so, man will not auto-add
> directories based on your PATH (at least that's what I understand
> it to do).

I had been using MANPATH but to test I removed it from .profile,  
logged out of my shell, opened a new shell and ran "manpath" and /opt/ 
local/share/man was not in my man path. Tried "sudo manpath" and /opt/ 
local/share/man was in my man path.

A quick look shows /opt/local has root:admin and 755 for directories.  
Would this prevent man from operating on /opt/local/share/man?

Maybe because it stores formated results in catx or something? I  
really don't know much about man.


//Brad


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