Summary: Installing local man pages.

From: rr@netrix.com
Date: Wed Aug 09 1995 - 00:45:40 CDT


Hi all,

I have had an overwhelming response to this question. My original question was:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, we have been compiling and installing programs from the internet
> which are pubicly available. While doing that I install the executables
> on our server and automount it as /usr/local/bin on all desktop machines.
>
> We dont have a procedure to install the man pages globally though. Can those
> of you who have good methods to do this mail your ideas to me?
>
> For now I have installed the man pages for these programs in /usr/man/man1
> of some of the machines manually. I would like these new man pages available
> on our entire network.
>
> We are running a Solaris2.x on all our machines.
>
> Thanks. I will summarize as usual.
>
> -Ramesh.

This is what I did to resolve the problem based on all the responses.

Since my server: /diskx/local is already automounted as /usr/local on all
our machines. I added a directory called man under /usr/local and added
subdirectories man1, man2 etc under man.

This shows up on all our machines. I then added a MANPATH variable with the
following paths to it.

MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/other_apps/man etc.

I added this to our global .cshrc file which is used by all users. That did it.
Thanks to everyone who responded.

-Ramesh.
Ramesh Radhakrishnan
UNIX Systems Administrator
Netrix Corporation
Herndon, VA.



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