[Nut-upsuser] puzzle, need magic incantation (man pages)

[Charles Lepple]

On Dec 1, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> FWIW, before I asked, I redid the nut ./configure --with-doc=auto, then a 
> make.  Then I step into the docs directory and do a sudo make install, 
> which it appears to do.  But no manpages were install despite the command 
> line echo showing that they were when I did the sudo make install, but I 
> am forced to go into the docs directory and a man ./name-of-man-page to 
> read it, and mode is only mentioned briefly in the example line which 
> shows mode=none. That is a 10-33 torr suckage.

I think that other link I sent to the sample nut.conf has all of the possible values there - not sure what happened to those comments in your original file.

> This I think can be alleviated by setting up the env variable MANPATH, 
> which is not apparently configured.  Export that and it works.  So put it 
> in my .bashrc
> 
> But since every other manpage on the system works without that env setting 
> of $MANPATH, showing "/usr/local/ups/share/man:/usr/share/man" when 
> queried now, why should i have to do it for nuts man pages?  Boggles the 
> mind.

If you run "./configure" without passing, say,  "--prefix=/usr/local", it will default to "--prefix=/usr/local/ups" which has the advantage of putting everything in one directory. To clean up, you just delete /usr/local/ups. Cleaning up after a botched install to /usr/local is painful, either involving backups, or surgically removing files from bin/, sbin/, etc/, man/man?/, etc.

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Charles Lepple
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