[Samba] Manual pages on Centos

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Mon Jun 16 07:37:13 MDT 2014


On 6/13/2014 4:19 PM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Am 13.06.2014 21:59, schrieb Steve Campbell:
>>>> What's is the preferred way to include the samba manual pages on a
>>>> Centos 6 system. Should I move the files to the "Manpath" or modify the
>>>> man.config?
>>>>
>>>> Examples of which ever way is best would help.
>>> I don't understand your question. Do you have compiled Samba by yourself
>>> and ask how to get the man pages into your OS so you can run e. g. 'man
>>> smb.conf'?
>> Yes
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/OS_Requirements#Required_Libraries_and_programs
>
> Make sure, you have installed xsltproc and docbook. These packages are
> required for building the manpages.
>
>
> Then:
> # ./configure --mandir=/usr/share/man/ .....
> # make
> # make install
> # man smb.conf
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
Thanks,

I wasn't sure which docbook I needed on the Centos 6 server, so I 
installed all of the docbook* rpms (yum install docbook*). Nothing like 
bloating a server ... but it's just for testing purposes. That seemed to 
work.

steve


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