stupid question about man pages

Mike Diehn mdiehn at mindspring.com
Wed Jan 31 17:22:13 UTC 2001


* Jim Reid (jim at rfc1035.com) [01 30, 2001 19:10]:
> >>>>> "willie" == willie  <willie at pdfsystems.com> writes:
> 
>     willie> I'm trying to install 9.1 rather than upgrade 8.2 .  Now I
>     willie> see there is a new config file rdnc.conf and I see in the
>     willie> doc dir that there is a man file but make install doesn't
>     willie> install it.  I'ld like the man files.  How do I install
>     willie> them?
> 
> Do it by hand. You'll probably need groff. An understanding of how man
> pages are organised on your system will help too. Getting the man
> pages to install OK as part of the BIND9 configuration is on my to do
> list. Maybe for the next release?

I found that my Linux workstation knew how to read those man
pages without any help from me.  Solaris didn't, so I copied them
over.

  cd ~
  mkdir -p  man/man1 man/man8 man/man5
  (put the man pages in the those subdirectories)
  man -M `pwd`/man named-checkconf

Mike


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