Bug 55115

Summary:	man does not obey MANDEFOPTIONS
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <vkire>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-25 19:18:57 UTC

Description of Problem:
In the default /etc/man.config that is shipped with man,
there is a comment that MANDEFOPTIONS allows you to
specify default options. We would like to use this to make
man run as man -a by default since that's what our users are
used to from other Unices. However, man does not recognize
this option at all. From looking at the code, I don't
see any mention of it. It would be nice if this could be
implemented. If not, the reference in the man.config file
should at least be removed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.5h1-20

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-11-27 15:47:36 UTC

Code for handling it is there in 1.5j... Check man_getopt() in man-getopt.c.
Doesn't seem to be working though, debugging.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-11-27 16:20:21 UTC

Ok, fixed in 1.5j-1.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-11-27 16:23:25 UTC

Sorry, forgot to set the correct resolution. ;)