Man pages

Adam Lang aalang at rutgersinsurance.com
Thu May 24 18:51:07 UTC 2001


To follow up on the lwres man pages...

I also get this message if I try to view them.

[root at reagan man3]# man lwres_getipnodebyname
<standard input>:20: realpath on `lwres_getipnode.3' failed: No such file or
directory

The other man pages work like a charm.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Waters" <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Man pages


>
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> >
> > At 9:56 AM -0400 5/24/01, Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > >  Ok, this is probably a trivial question, but how do I install the man
pages
> > >  for BIND 9 from source?  I've never done it before and have not seen
> > >  references to it...
> >
> >         I don't think that there are any.  The documentation for BIND 9
> > comes in the form of the Administrators Reference Manual (ARM) that
> > ships in the doc/ subdirectory.
>
> You must have less need of them than the rest of us Brad *8)
>
> bind-9.x.x/doc/man/[bin][dnssec][lwres]
>
> A quick glance at the Makefile leads me to suspect that it
> won't install them automatically. You may want to point your
> "MANPATH" at these directories, or manually "cp" the files
> to relevant directories.
>
> On my box cp *.8 /usr/man/man8 and check the file
> permissions are read for group/other if you think they
> should be able to read the manual), updating the index is a
> good idea as well (man catman, or man whatis, or similar)
>
> Or the terminally lazy (like me) can just "nroff -man
> named.8 | more" as needed.
>
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