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manpath !!!manpath NAME DESCRIPTION FORMAT BUGS ---- !!NAME manpath - format of the /etc/manpath.config file !!DESCRIPTION The manpath configuration file is used by the manual page utilities to assess users' manpaths at run time, to indicate which manual page hierarchies (manpaths) are to be treated as system hierarchies and to assign them directories to be used for storing cat files. If the environment variable $__MANPATH__ is already set, the information contained within /etc/manpath.config will not override it. !!FORMAT The following field types are currently recognised: __#__ ''comment'' Blank lines or those beginning with a __#__ will be treated as comments and ignored. __MANDATORY_MANPATH__ ''manpath_element'' Lines of this form indicate manpaths that every automatically generated $__MANPATH__ should contain. This will typically include ''/usr/man''. __MANPATH_MAP__ ''path_element manpath_element'' Lines of this form set up $__PATH__ to $__MANPATH__ mappings. For each ''path_element'' found in the user's $__PATH__, ''manpath_element'' will be added to the $__MANPATH__. __MANDB_MAP__ ''manpath_element'' [[ ''catpath_element'' ] Lines of this form indicate which manpaths are to be treated as system manpaths, and optionally where their cat files should be stored. This field type is particularly important if __man__ is a setuid program, as (when in the system configuration file /etc/manpath.config rather than the per-user configuration file .manpath) it indicates which manual page hierarchies to access as the setuid user and which as the invoking user. The system manual page hierarchies are usually those stored under ''/usr'' such as ''/usr/man'', ''/usr/local/man'' and ''/usr/X11R6/man''. If cat pages from a particular ''manpath_element'' are not to be stored or are to be stored in the traditional location, ''catpath_element'' may be omitted. Traditional cat placement would be impossible for read only mounted manual page hierarchies and because of this it is possible to specify any valid directory hierarchy for their storage. To observe the __Linux FSSTND__ the keyword `__FSSTND__ can be used in place of an actual directory. Unfortunately, it is necessary to specify __all__ system man tree paths, including alternate operating system paths such as ''/usr/man/sun'' and any __NLS locale__ paths such as ''/usr/man/de_DE.88591''. As the information is parsed line by line in the order written, it is necessary for any manpath that is a sub-hierarchy of another hierarchy to be listed first, otherwise an incorrect match will be made. An example is that ''/usr/man/de_DE.88591'' must come before ''/usr/man''. __DEFINE__ ''key value'' Lines of this form define miscellaneous configuration variables; see the default configuration file for those variables used by the manual pager utilities. They include default paths to various programs (such as ''grep'' and ''tbl''), and default sets of arguments to those programs. !!BUGS Unless the rules above are followed and observed precisely, the manual pager utilities will not function as desired. The rules are overly complicated. ----
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