Man page sections 2 or 3 missing

New iMac, new Xcode install from the app store, it appears I do not have man page sections 2 or 3. Can I get those somewhere?
OSX 10.7.3
XCode 4.3.1
Thanks.

Upgraded to XCode 4.3.2, then downloaded command line tools from within XCode, and there they are.

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Man pages missing?

Hi
In a core install, I noticed that the man pages are missing. How do I install them? And I mean the man pages plus those ones that are part of the programming in C functions.
Also ... what's the name of the package which contains such usefull programs as strace and string?
Last edited by Bangel (2008-03-02 13:49:37)

Okay, im not sure about which stuff to merge from profile.pacnew to profile apart from unset MANPATH.
# /etc/profile
export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"
export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
export LESSCHARSET="latin1"
export INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc"
export LESS="-R"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export COLUMNS LINES
export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
export PS2='> '
umask 022
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o "$TERM" = "rxvt" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-xfree86" ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
fi
# load profiles from /etc/profile.d
# (to disable a profile, just remove execute permission on it)
if [ `ls -A1 /etc/profile.d/ | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -x $profile ]; then
. $profile
fi
done
unset profile
fi
# End of file
File: /etc/profile.pacnew
# Note the explicit use of 'test' to cover all bases
# and potentially incompatible shells
#Determine our shell without using $SHELL, which may lie
shell="sh"
if test -f /proc/mounts; then
case $(/bin/ls -l /proc/$$/exe) in
*bash) shell=bash ;;
*dash) shell=dash ;;
*ash) shell=ash ;;
*ksh) shell=ksh ;;
*zsh) shell=zsh ;;
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umask 022
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PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH
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HISTSIZE=1000
HISTCONTROL="erasedups"
INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc"
LESS="-R"
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Bug with Solaris man page on dlsym

I hope someone at Sun working on Solaris is reading this. There are bugs in the Solaris 10 man page on dlsym - there are a couple of places that says "see the .". Apparently soemthing is missing. My version of man pages is "Last change: 26 Sep 2005".

The prototype of pthread_create() is correct on Solaris 10 man page (SunOS 5.10 Last change: 23 Mar 2005):
int pthread_create(pthread_t *restrict thread, const
pthread_attr_t *restrict attr, void
*(*start_routine)(void*), void *restrict arg);
But the prototype of pthread_cleanup_push() is correct on Solaris 10 man page (SunOS 5.10 Last change: 4 Oct 2005) is incorrect:
void pthread_cleanup_push(void (*handler, void *),void *arg);
I guess Sun simply has to check all the man pages of the pthread functions carefully one by one to make sure this error is fixed.

Can't view man pages on solaris 8 x86

Hi,
I installed solaris 8 on a intel x86 machine not using the webwizard because I wanted a minimal installation.
When I try to view man pages I get the following error:
man manReformatting page. Please Wait...Invalid SGML. File cannot be formatted
sys(cd /usr/share/man; /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff /usr/share/man/sman1/man.1 > /tmp/sman_3827) fail!
aborted (sorry)
when I list /usr/lib/sgml then I got the following files:
ls -ltotal 2830
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 68016 Jan 9 2000 instant
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 1366552 Jan 9 2000 nsgmls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 3183 Jan 6 2000 sgml2roff
Don't know what is wrong but I think I'm missing a package, anybody clues...
with regards,
Martijn de Munnik
[email protected]

Depending on how minimal your install was, you may not have installed the man pages.
Take a look in /usr/share/man and see if you have the man pages installed, and if not, install them.

Man pages present, utilities absent? ("at" "talk" others?) [Solved]

Hi,
I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm gonna post it here.
I've got man page entries from certain utiilities from the posix programmers manual, like "at" and "talk" but these utilities aren't actually installed,
I've searched the pacman repository and I'm not actually sure these utilities are even provided as a package at all.
Is there something that I can use like "at"? (besides crontabs)
Also, is this worth filing a bug report over? (I searched the bugs list, I didn't find anything matching this description, although I only tried searching for "man pages" and "posix", and only checked the first page for "man pages".
There's also some problems with viewing certain man-pages, like that dhcpcd man page where some of the characters are garbled, but I think this is probably a known bug relating to the switchover to UTF-8 as the standard locale.
Thanks
Last edited by pseudonomous (2008-10-08 23:30:57)

The pkg 'man-pages' is directly taken from http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/, which is funded by the Linux Foundation. You can see in the link that this pkg provides man pages for system-calls, glibc lib functions, device-files, file-formats and section 7 (miscellanea).
Each pkg (e.g. util-linux-ng) is supposed to provide it's own manual pages. The 'POSIX programmer manuals' are provided to document the fact that how should these utilities behave or be implemented (if somebody wants to implement them...). This doesn't mean that these utilities are installed (they may be if their pkg is installed).
Hope it helps !!
P.S. POSIX is a *nix standardization effort.
Last edited by Onwards (2009-01-17 18:35:11)

Hyperlinks in Terminal man pages

Several third party applications (eg ManOpen) put hyperlinks in man pages. Often this is done on the fly using the same man page source as the Terminal.
Does Apple do this with the Terminal or any other applications which use local (ie not web) man pages?
My groff_mdoc man page says:
.Lk To be written
but a more informative description at http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/mdoc.7.html says:
.Lk link (for conversion to HTML). Usage: .Lk <href> [anchor-text]
I suspect Lk has not been widely used and that third party applications probably use the existing Xr tags about which my groff_mdoc man page says:
Manual Page Cross References
The '.Xr' macro expects the first argument to be a manual page name. The optional second argument, if a string (defining the manual section), is put into parentheses.
Usage: .Xr ⟨man page name⟩ [⟨section⟩] ...
.Xr mdoc        mdoc
.Xr mdoc ,      mdoc,
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Sorry, I didn't peruse that link. On my machine, man:<commmand> works in Safari.
Thanks for that I had misread the instructions and tried man: ls and man ls (as per terminal) rather than the correct man:ls
That's incorrect. This example is from the chmod manpage:
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+     actions are determined by the last one specified.+
In my terminal I get the following:
Case 1 - Terminal/Prefences/Window Columns set to 80
The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified.
In addition, these options override each other and the command's actions
are determined by the last one specified.
Case 2 - Terminal/Prefences/Window Columns set to 120
The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified. In addition, these options
override each other and the command's actions are determined by the last one specified.
For these tests I closed Preferences and then opened a new Terminal window. Manually widening the windows did not increase text width further but narrowing them resulted in an untidy soft text wrap a character at a time rather than the normal word at a time.
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KDE: Konqueror with man pages - also Firefox/Shiretoko styles

Greetings!
I've only recently started using Arch. Two weeks ago I installed, and so far all is going well, and I have to say that I'm very impressed with both the quality of this distribution and the thoroughness of the Wiki.
I've encountered two minor annoyances that I simply can't figure out, and can't find in the Wiki...
1) I like using Konqueror for man pages when I have a GUI because they are somewhat easier to read. Anyway, Konqueror displays them, but it's as if I haven't gotten the character set correct or something. What happens is that some of the formatting code comes through as text. For example, I'm looking at the smb.conf man page in another window right now, and the first several lines of text look like the following:
SMB.CONF
Section: File Formats and Conventions (5)
." make the size of the head bigger
\ ." make the size of the head bigger \
2) I'm using Firefox installed straight from the repository. I next installed and used lxappearance appearance to change the style to the QTCurve style as suggested in the KDE Wiki page. This works great, and Firefox looks more like a native KDE application right up until I log off. When I log in, Firefox is back to looking like a foreign application again, and I have to run lxappearance again. It only takes a few seconds, so it's an annoyance at worst, but it is somewhat annoying. I have not tried switch2 or gtk-chtheme, perhaps I should?
I can't believe I'm the first one to have these problems - but I've been searching and reading the Wiki as well as the general internet and haven't lucked onto anything for either problem. I would really appreciate a link or hint pointing me in the proper direction for either or both of these problems.
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Last edited by chrsprkr3 (2009-12-12 19:26:45)

Er... my 's's have magically returned? But I have no idea why. I didn't even restart Firefox. (I'd already tried that and it made no difference.)
Would really like to know why...
EDIT: I still don't have 'm's etc. in code listings, though.
Last edited by cfr (2012-03-26 00:58:19)

Man pages don't have new field about License

at least PKGBUILD.proto has it.
but plz add it to the man pages too [for example in makepkg]
ty
and I would start using License because It's extra important
I should expect in the near future,
IgnoreLicenseType = non-free
and similar stuff that would keep acroread {and not only}out of the way..?
licensetypes coud be gpl-lgpl-compatible {it includes the latest BSD license}, X11, and so on..

Hello Xentac. hmm I missed the 1. point it seems..
anyways, you 've added the license feature to Pacman.
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Master page section on the left side of SharePoint Designer 2010

Dear all,
When I am editing my site in SharePoint designer 2010 - normally I used to get on the left hand side section - Master Page section. Now this is not appearing.
Kindly help - by providing inputs.
thanks
Sathya

Hi Sathya,
According to your description, my understanding is that the Master Pages Link Missing in your SharePoint Designer 2010.
For troubleshooting your issue, please take steps as below:
1.Login to the site collection.
2.From the Site Actions menu (top
left), select Site Settings.
3.On the Site Settings page, scroll down to the Site Collection Administration section, and then
look for the SharePoint Designer Settings link.
4.Click this link. The Site Collection
Administration's SharePoint Designer Settings page appears.
5.Check the setting, enable the Customizing Master Pages and Page
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OK.
Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21976.sharepoint-2010-master-pages-link-missing-in-sharepoint-designer-2010.aspx
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/12191/why-dont-lists-and-libraries-show-up-in-sharepoint-designer
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Cannot access pacman man page since update...

Okay, so I just updated pacman to 3.1.1-1, and I can't access pacman's man page. I checked and found that the page does exist on my system (I think, /usr/man/man5/pacman.conf.5.gz and /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz both exist). When I try execute 'man pacman' it just tells me "No manual entry for pacman". Oh, and I also tried manually specifying the section.
Any idea what's going on here?
Last edited by fflarex (2008-01-22 02:10:45)

Allan wrote:
zodmaner wrote:Anyway, since only x86_64 have this 'problem', should we file a bug report on this?
No, it a known problem with the transition of man pages to FHS compliant locations.
So that means the proper location of the man page is in /usr/share/man instate of /usr/man? Does this means that the man page for i686 version of pacman will eventually be moved to /usr/share/man too?
Last edited by zodmaner (2008-01-23 08:30:14)

What does "restrict" mean in Solaris 10 man pages ?

Hi everyone,
On Solaris 10 programming man pages I see the
"restrict" word used quite often. What is its meaning ?
It wasn't there in previous releases. Is it documented anywhere ?
Excerpt from select(3c) man page:
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Vlad.

It's for C99. It has to do with pointer aliasing. See section D.1.2.1 of
http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6697/c99.app.html
and section 3.8.2 of
http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6697/parallel.html#70231
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Convert terminal man page to pdf/export man page as pdf

Hi there,
Would anyone of you know how to export a man page as a pdf?
-jns

I've read several books on UNIX and the bash shell, and read the sections of several MacOSX books on UNIX. I started dabbling way way back, used Linux a bit on a rebuilt 486, installed some UNIX based stuff on pre-OS X Macs (there was Yellow Dog, and something else, whose name escapes me, I used on my 7100). Back then it was best to buy books. These days you can find anything you want to know along those lines on the internet. An excellent place to start:
http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws
Whenever I discover/see a useful command I add it to my "cheat sheet" along with an example and an explanation of it. I've organized my "cheat sheet" into categories that make sense to me, so that I can quickly find what I want.
A really handy helpful application for this sort of thing is Clix from Rixstep:
http://rixstep.com/4/0/clix/index.shtml
It has various lists of commands, categories and explanations. Truly great software, and it's free.
Francine
Francine
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[Solved] Looking for arch's original man page color codes

Hey everyone. I'm new to arch, and enjoying having everything begin to work out for me. One thing I was wondering though is what the color codes are that the man pages use before X is loaded or anything similar.
Per the archwiki, I'm using the following to provide myself with colored man pages in urxvt:
From .Xresources:
! colored man pages on rxvt-unicode-256color
URxvt.colorIT: #87af5f
URxvt.colorBD: #d7d7d7
URxvt.colorUL: #87afd7
This works, but it's not the same colorscheme as what arch starts out with initially. Anyone know what that colorscheme is? Or where I could look to find it?
Last edited by zematis (2014-05-12 22:21:30)

ayekat, thanks for the warm welcome!
ayekat wrote:What article in the wiki?
Here's the section in the Wiki I was referring to:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ma … vt-unicode
karol wrote:Are you talking about using man pages before installing Arch or after installing but in the tty? Do you want to get the same colors in X?
(I think) I was talking about the colors that the man pages are in the TTY. Specifically, my processes is:
Boot up arch
Login (X yet not started)
Look at a man page - like the colors
Startx - boot to window manager (i3)
Look at a man page - want to change the colors
That said, I liked the colors the man pages had before installing Arch quite a bit, and wouldn't object to learning what those are.
ayekat wrote:Here you are changing how urxvt displays characters that are marked as underline, italic or bold; in particular you are changing their colours.
The thing is, it won't only affect man pages viewed in urxvt, but everything.
Makes sense
ayekat wrote:As for changing the colour scheme of the manpage, you'll probably want to do it more properly, using the LESS_TERMCAP environment variables.
I tried copying your format to my .bashrc and it worked great! So that's a win. Now I just need to figure out what the '\e[#;#;#m' numbers mean. I think I can probably handle that one on my own though. I found a resource here at:
http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colo … ng#colors2
And it looks like it covers what I need to know.
Thanks for your help!
And honestly, at this point I think I can figure out what colorscheme I like given the info at hand. So I think we can call this one taken care of.
If it interests anyone, I found a .sh script at the above link to display all 256 colors, then modified it to show the colors bolded, italicized etc. Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
# This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
# the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
# To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
# http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
for coltype in {0..8} ; do # Bold, Italic etc.
for fgbg in 38 48 ; do #Foreground/Background
for color in {0..256} ; do #Colors
#Display the color
echo -en "\e[(0${coltype});(${fgbg};5;${color}m ${color}\t\e[0m"
#Display 10 colors per lines
if [ $((($color + 1) % 10)) == 0 ] ; then
echo #New line
fi
done
echo #New line
echo #New line
done
echo #New line
done
exit 0

[SOLVED] Where are all of the Man pages?

On my system, man-pages do not exist for many things e.g. bash commands like ls, rm, cp & cd are missing?
The directory /usr/man/ has the following folders: man1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
It would seem that at least numbers 2 & 6 are missing.
I have reinstalled the man utility (though it already worked) & man-pages, though it doesn't give me access to the bash commands that I know man pages exist for.
Any ideas?
Last edited by handy (2008-10-19 03:49:01)

Onwards wrote:
handy wrote:Which is now entered in my /etc/profile/ but it has no noticeable effect.
/etc/profile is read by the login shells only. So you could have got the desired effect w/o a reboot by doing either:
su -
OR...
konsole --ls #starting it as a login shell
What I needed to know was not just the line to add & where, which first answer told me, but also the line to delete, which second useful answer told me. I had logged out after adding the line, & decided after the removing the offending line that I will reboot for good measure!
Thanks for your confirmation that a logout would have done the job.

Create new man pages

Hello,
I'm trying to generate man pages for the system I'm working on.
I'm having problem in having my own titles displayed when I type in "man mycommand".
The man page displays correctly with section name and all.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is what I did:
I used SGML to generate the man pages.
My directory structure is below:
/mydir/man
man.cf
smandcast/mycommand.dcast
smandcast/smancommon.ent
The section name I'm using is "dcast". I made the changes in my "smancommon.ent " to have my own title for this section. It didn't work. I even changes the "/usr/share/man/entitiels/smancommon.ent" to see where the man command is picking this title information from. It didn't work either.
This is what I want to see when I type "man mycommand"
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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Instead this is what I'm seeing
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NAME
mycommand - This is my test command
SYNOPSIS
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Kevin,
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