Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

[Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine & Engineering]

Below is the contents of my /etc/man.config file
Not on my system this file is "man.config"   not   ".man.config".

mendes wrote:

> Hello
>         Unfortunately man procmail won't work.  I have just found out that man
> can't find a thing. The /etc/.man.config is empty.  Could someone tell me what
> to expect on /etc/.man.config?
>
>         Thanks a lot.

#
# Generated automatically from man.conf.in by the
# configure script.
#
# man.conf
#
# This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used
# when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat
# pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored,
# and to map each PATH element to a manpath element.
# It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.]
# The format is:
#
# MANBIN  pathname
# MANPATH  manpath_element [corresponding_catdir]
# MANPATH_MAP  path_element manpath_element
#
# If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir
# (so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs).
# This is the traditional Unix setup.
# Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions
# of /usr/.../man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/.../catx/page.x.
# The keyword FSSTND will cause this behaviour.
# Certain versions of the FHS recommend putting formatted versions of
# /usr/.../share/man/[locale/]manx/page.x into
# /var/cache/man/.../[locale/]catx/page.x.
# The keyword FHS will cause this behaviour (and overrides FSSTND).
# Explicitly given catdirs override.
#
FSSTND
# FHS
#
# This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc.,
# and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors.
#
# MANBIN  /usr/local/bin/man
#
# Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
#
MANPATH /usr/man
MANPATH /usr/local/man
MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH /usr/lib/perl5/man
#
# Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
#
# (these mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is
# in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting
# lots of other nearby files and directories)
#
MANPATH_MAP /bin   /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /sbin   /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin  /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin  /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin  /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin  /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/X11  /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/mh  /usr/man
#
# Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
# NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
# not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
#
TROFF  /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
NROFF  /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
EQN  /usr/bin/geqn -Tps
NEQN  /usr/bin/geqn -Tascii
TBL  /usr/bin/gtbl
# COL  /usr/bin/col
REFER  /usr/bin/grefer
PIC  /usr/bin/gpic
VGRIND
GRAP
PAGER  /usr/bin/less -is
CAT  /bin/cat
#
# The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy.
# When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same
# text twice.
#
CMP  /usr/bin/cmp -s
#
# Compress cat pages
#
COMPRESS /bin/gzip
COMPRESS_EXT .gz
#
# Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified
# and the MANSECT environment variable is not set.
#
MANSECT  1:8:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
#
# Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension
# The command given must act as a filter.
#
.gz  /bin/gunzip -c
.bz2  /usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d
.z
.Z  /bin/zcat
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