[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 Title: /etc/environment lacks man page. To manage notifications abou

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Oops, dumpling. Sorry. I have no write access to revert me changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 Title: /etc/environment lacks man page. To manage notifications about

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk
The point here is that /etc/environment is a pam_env(8) thing. The pam_env(8) page documents /etc/environment, but users can't easily discover that information. There needs to me a man page "link" , environmen(5), that points to pam_env(8). I filed this report to get that fixed: https://fedorahost

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also, given a file /etc/foo then one would expect foo to be the name of the man page; not bar. Thus environment(5), not environ(7). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 Title:

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
No, environ(7) documents the "char **environ" symbol that program can expect to find and that contain environment variables. That's not connected to environment(5) that describes a file format for a file that contains environment variables, e.g. are comments allowed. Other problems stated by this

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-16 Thread Stéphane Aulery
The valid page is environ.7, which exists. LANGUAGE variable is not described by environ.7, but it’s an other problem treated in the bug : #311558. ** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2011-01-23 Thread Tamlin
I've done a little reading and it appears /etc/environment is indeed a configuration file for Linux-PAM man PAM("PAM" must be in capitals "pam" is something else) Also had a look at Linux-PAM System Administrators Guide http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_env

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-09-17 Thread rusivi1
Confirmed same output in Maverick. lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu maverick (development branch) Release:10.10 apt-cache policy manpages manpages: Installed: 3.24-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.24-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.24-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/u

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-09-14 Thread Lesmana Zimmer
still in lucid $ dpkg -S /etc/environment dpkg: /etc/environment not found. $ man environment No manual entry for environment -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct su

Re: [Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 07:37:27PM -, rusivi1 wrote: > Does this issue occur in Lucid? Goodness me. Is it so hard to check for the presence of a man page before asking the reporter? Please don't ask for confirmation of bugs you can check for yourself. status triaged ** Changed in: manpag

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-09-14 Thread rusivi1
Thank you for posting this bug. Does this issue occur in Lucid? ** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-01-31 Thread Hendy Irawan
Still in 9.10 Karmic Koala. In addition, LD_LIBRARY_PATH can't get loaded from /etc/environment since Jaunty, see bug #366728 -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct su

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2010-01-01 Thread Helge Stenström
In a discussion on a Java application, there was a tip on checking the /etc/environment file (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freemind/+bug/212588). I have the file, but have never changed it myself. It is not owned by a package. I don't dare to change it manually. What if my changes are

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2009-10-14 Thread Allan
still in jaunty Note: OpenBSD does not consider missing man pages on configuration files to be minor, which is why I continue to enjoy sysadmin under OpenBSD more so than Ubuntu. This is a sysadmin papercut: a minor defect that could be easily fixed which griefs nearly everyone who has to figure

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2008-03-23 Thread Ralph Janke
still in hardy -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2007-11-08 Thread Henning Moll
Interesting part from /usr/share/doc/belocs-locales-bin/NEWS.Debian.gz: > * Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more >/etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying >configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is a >conf

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2007-01-11 Thread Vassilis Pandis
And feisty. -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18574 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2006-08-11 Thread Vassilis Pandis
And Edgy. -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18574 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2006-06-13 Thread Vassilis Pandis
This is still an issue on 6.06. ** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18574 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs