Re: man pages

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:38:07PM +0000, Maccy wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've taken over the management of a server running RedHat 7.3. I noticed a
> few days ago that many man pages are missing, including some important
> ones for commands used often.
> 
> How could I go about getting them back to the level at which they
> (presumably) were at installation? Is there a tar file somewhere?
> 
> I don't really want to reinstall as we have a good number of users, and
> this is our main file server.
> 
> Many TIA
> 
> Maccy

Most if not all man pages are in the RPMs with their associated
functional programs.  You can check for missing man pages this way.
Say you are missing the man page for ls.

$ which ls
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
        /bin/ls
# See which RPM owns ls.
$ rpm -qf /bin/ls
fileutils-4.1-10
# Verify the contents of the RPM
$ rpm -V fileutils
$

If any files, especially man pages, are missing, you can put the
appropriate CD into the drive, mount it, and force an install of the
RPM:

rpm -ivh --force /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/fileutils-4.1*

To find which cd contains a given RPM, you may be interested in this
handy utility:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/whichcd/

It's even available as an RPM.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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