Manconf was a kluge on 10.1 that broke things on 10.2.  It should have
been removed when you did an upgrade, but might have been missed.

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:53, Mark Jaffe wrote:
> Oh, one other thing that occurred was that my "man" stopped working. 
> All of a sudden, I was getting this prompt: /usr/bin/man: illegal 
> option -- C
> 
> So I went to the FAQ and saw something about "make" not working anymore 
> (same error) and a little more investigation showed this in my log:
>   echo "#!/bin/sh" > man
>   echo '/usr/bin/man -C /sw/etc/man.conf $*' >> man
>   chmod 755 man
>   mkdir /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/bin
>   mkdir /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/etc
>   cp man.conf /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/etc
>   cp man /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/bin
> rm -f /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/info/dir 
> /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/info/dir.old 
> /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/share/info/dir 
> /sw/src/root-manconf-20020121-1/sw/share/info/dir.old
> rm -rf manconf-20020121-1
> Writing control file...
> 
> So my default man was a script in /sw/bin/ that put a bad flag -C in my 
> command. Not nice!
> 
> 
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