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From: Jonathan Amery <jdamery@colon.colondot.net>
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Subject: manpath documentation confusing or confused
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>Number:         30940
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       manpath documentation confusing or confused
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ru
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 30 12:30:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 1 09:58:53 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 01 09:59:25 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Jonathan Amery
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Chiark Orbital / :.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD colon.colondot.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Sep 22 18:07:46 BST 2001 root@colon.colondot.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/COLONDOT i386

>Description:

 The manpath manpage reads:

     Manpath tries to determine the user's manpath from a set of system
     defaults and the user's PATH, echoing the result to the standard output.
     Warnings and errors are written to the standard error.  If a directory in
     the user's path is not listed in the /etc/manpath.config file, manpath
     looks for the subdirectories man or MAN.  If they exist, they are added
     to the search path.

 Which suggests that the manpages for /foo/bar/bin are looked for in
/foo/bar/bin/man and not in /foo/bar/man (where they probably are, and
it certainly does appear to look).

>How-To-Repeat:

 Should be obvious.

>Fix:

 Discover what manpath actually does do then document that.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 09:58:53 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed, thanks! 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->ru 
Responsible-Changed-By: ru 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 09:58:53 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30940 
>Unformatted:
