Solaris Tip (was: Re: [PLUG] Quirky Mouse)

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Richard Langis wrote:

> First, I created a script that created the database.  I called it
> updatedb.  It called find, indexing from root, not looking at remote
> filesystems, and dumping everything it found into a file somewhere
> in /var.

Just so everyone knows (I'm sure Richard does), locate and slocate are
all free software and can be compiled on Solaris without any
difficulty:

ftp://ftp.geekreview.org/slocate/src/slocate-2.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.1.tar.gz

> FYI Rogan - my current MANPATH looks like so:
> 
> /usr/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/local/tools/man:/usr/local/man

Another data point:

  [heinlein]$ uname -a
  SunOS hepburn 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
  [heinlein]$ echo $MANPATH
  /usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/java/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/dt/man

Other good candidates for $MANPATH include /usr/local/man, 
/usr/local/share/man, and a host of more obscure directories:

  /opt/SUNWspro/man      -- Sun Workshop compilers
  /usr/j2se/man          -- Java 1.4
  /usr/openwin/share/man -- new-style X man dir
  /usr/dt/share/man      -- new-style cde man dir
  /usr/perl5/man         -- system perl
  /opt/TWWfsw/man        -- for The Written Word packages
  /opt/gnome-1.4/man     -- for Sun's gnome package

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>