Bug 72589
| Summary: | configuration of man erratic/wrong | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-01-14 04:46:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 67218, 79579 | ||
A note: 'su - $(whoami)' seems to catch configuration changes if they are otherwise missing. But what is a reason for that I have no idea. /usr/local/man changed to /usr/local/share/man in man-1.5k-2. Will close as the nroff and man man are addressed in other bugs |
Description of Problem: There are assorted problems with how 'man' configuration is handled. It starts with this fragment of 'man man': Specify the configuration file to use; the default is /usr//etc/man.config. (See man.conf(5).) Interestingly enough there is no "see man.conf". There is 'man man.config' and this one for a change says: FILES @man_config_file@ Ahem... Checking with 'strace' what is actually consulted we can see open("/usr//etc/man.config", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) and this even includes "//" as 'man man' says. It is true that this is followed by attempts to open "/etc/man.conf" and "/etc/man.config" but the content of the later seems to be taken into account or ignored depending on some circumstances I cannot figure out. In particular PAGER used may end up either as '/usr/bin/less -isr', with output looking ok, or as '/usr/bin/less -n' which will display escape sequences on a terminal. A workaround for that is to set MANPAGER variable in an enviroment. Further we can see in /etc/man.config MANPATH /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man where /usr/local/man does not exist for quite a while replaced with /usr/local/share/man. And there is also this comment: # NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1"; # not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output. # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option. Is this indeed correct and a reason why non-English man pages are coming mangled?