Where to install man pages?

fanoflq · 06-10-2016, 04:03 PM

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sepolicy-manpage(8) sepolicy-manpage(8)

NAME
sepolicy-manpage - Generate a man page based on the installed SELinux Policy

SYNOPSIS
sepolicy manpage [-w] [-h] [-p PATH ] [-r ROOTDIR ] [-a | -d ]

DESCRIPTION
Use sepolicy manpage to generate manpages based on SELinux Policy.

OPTIONS
-a, --all
Generate Man Pages for All Domains

-d, --domain
Generate a Man Page for the specified domain. (Supports multiple commands)

-h, --help
Manual page sepolicy-manpage(8) line 1/46 55% (press h for help or q to quit)

If you use above utility to create man pages for sepolicy utilities, and when I looked an /usr/share/man, there are many man?? sub-directories like so:

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[user1@localhost man]$ pwd
/usr/share/man

[user1@localhost man]$ ls -al | grep man
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 14:44 man0p
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 61440 May 3 03:58 man1
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 8192 Apr 15 14:44 man1p
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 12 2015 man1x

...
...

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 94208 Jun 10 12:23 man8
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 12 2015 man8x
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 12 2015 man9
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 12 2015 man9x
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 12 2015 mann
[user1@localhost man]$

How do I decide where to install man pages?
Thank you.

Emerson · 06-10-2016, 04:09 PM

man man

dijetlo · 06-10-2016, 04:58 PM

Generally it's just /usr/local/share/man<the section they go in>/ and then run mandb as root. Assuming the formats right you should be able to pull up the page with man at that point.

fanoflq · 06-10-2016, 05:54 PM

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Generally it's just /usr/local/share/man<the section they go in>

That is my main question.
I do not know which section it goes to......

Emerson · 06-10-2016, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by fanoflq

That is my main question.
I do not know which section it goes to......

... because you didn't read man man.

jamison20000e · 06-11-2016, 02:55 PM

[code][/code]

Tim Abracadabra · 06-25-2016, 07:35 PM

@ jamison20000e,
Your title made me almost shoot coffee out my nose.
Clever.

jamison20000e · 06-25-2016, 08:05 PM

...could hit the brain faster that way?

grail · 06-26-2016, 12:27 AM

I am not sure why you are finding the whole man experience such a nightmare. You are definitely making it harder than I have seen any previous user.

However, your question is, should you use sepolicy-manpage, where should the created man page go? My question to you would be, when you read the instructions (perhaps on the website) for sepolicy-manpage
what did they tell you? If there was zero instructions (hard to believe), then as stated above, read man man and work it out.

jamison20000e · 06-26-2016, 03:53 AM

Better searching can help too e.g...
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...user-directory
http://askubuntu.com/questions/24480...all-a-man-page