N00b question - /etc/man.conf

[bceverly]

Hi everyone,

I recently installed a utility from source (tarsnap) and its 'make install' put its manpages in /usr/local/share/man

Instead of moving the files I'd like to just add them into my local system's search path for the man command. After reading and re-reading the manpage for man.conf I thought I had it figured out. I would just add this to the bottom of the /etc/man.conf file:

tarsnap /usr/local/share/man/

(note the trailing slash - that is supposed to signify a directory according to my reading of the documentation)

Given that, I would think I could do:

man -s tarsnap tarsnap-keygen

and I would see the manpage for 'tarsnap-keygen'. Unfortunately it didn't work for me.

Is there something wrong with the syntax of my line I added to /etc/man.conf or is there a process I have to go through to manually rebuild an index or something to pick up my change?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[jggimi]

I've never touched man.conf, but from my reading of the man page you are missing the manpath keyword, and the word "tarsnap" is not a valid keyword. See /etc/examples/man.conf as a guide.

You might find it easier/faster/better to build the sysutils/tarsnap port, which takes care of positioning the installation files according to hier(7), for you.

As a tarsnap user, you may be interested in two additional ports. I've ported both ACTS and tarsnap-gui. They are not committed, but are available from the ports@ mailing list archives:

ACTS: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=142940622817549&w=2
tarsnap-gui: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=143419703116513&w=2

[bceverly]

Cool! Thanks.