1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Gordon Tetlow 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd June 3, 2011 27.Dt MAN.CONF 5 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm man.conf 31.Nd 32.Xr man 1 33and 34.Xr manpath 1 35configuration files 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Nm 39file is used to configure the manual search path, locales, and utility set for 40.Xr man 1 41and its related utilities. 42During initialization, 43.Xr man 1 44reads the configuration files located at 45.Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf 46and 47.Pa /etc/man.conf . 48.Pp 49The files contained in 50.Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf 51are intended to be used by the 52.Xr ports 7 53system for extending the manual set to support additional paths and locales. 54.Pa /etc/man.conf 55is intended to be used by the local administrator to set additional policy. 56.Pp 57Currently supported configuration variables include: 58.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset indent 59.It MANCONFIG 60Overrides the default location to import additional manual configuration files. 61Defaults to 62.Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf . 63.It MANPATH 64Adds the specified directory to the manual search path. 65.It MANLOCALE 66Indicates support is available for the given locale. 67.El 68.Pp 69For pages in a given language, overriding the default toolset for 70display is supported via the following definitions: 71.Pp 72.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset indent -compact 73.It EQN Ns _ Ns Va LANG 74.It NROFF Ns _ Ns Va LANG 75.It PIC Ns _ Ns Va LANG 76.It TBL Ns _ Ns Va LANG 77.It TROFF Ns _ Ns Va LANG 78.It REFER Ns _ Ns Va LANG 79.It VGRIND Ns _ Ns Va LANG 80.El 81.Pp 82See the 83.Sx EXAMPLES 84section for how to use these variables. 85.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 86The parser used for this utility is very basic and only supports comment 87characters (#) at the beginning of a line. 88.Sh FILES 89.Bl -tag -width "Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf" -compact 90.It Pa /etc/man.conf 91System configuration file. 92.It Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf 93Local configuration files. 94.El 95.Sh EXAMPLES 96A perl port that needs to install additional manual pages outside of the 97default location could install a file in 98.Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/perl.conf 99with the following contents: 100.Bd -literal -offset indent 101# Add perl man pages to search path 102MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/man 103MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/perl/man 104.Ed 105.Pp 106A Japanese localization port could install a custom toolset and include a 107file in 108.Pa /usr/local/etc/man.d/ja-man-doc.conf 109with the following contents: 110.Bd -literal -offset indent 111# Setup Japanese toolset 112MANLOCALE ja_JP.eucJP 113EQN_JA /usr/local/bin/geqn 114PIC_JA /usr/local/bin/gpic 115TBL_JA /usr/local/bin/gtbl 116NROFF_JA /usr/local/bin/groff -mandoc -dlang=ja_JP.eucJP 117TROFF_JA /usr/local/bin/groff -mandoc -dlang=ja_JP.euc.jp 118.Ed 119.Pp 120If the system administrator decides to override the 121.Va LOCALBASE 122.Xr make 1 123variable causing all 124.Xr ports 7 125to be installed into 126.Pa /opt 127instead of 128.Pa /usr/local , 129specifying the following in 130.Pa /etc/man.conf 131will accommodate this change: 132.Bd -literal -offset indent 133# Look for additional configuration files 134MANCONFIG /opt/etc/man.d/*.conf 135.Ed 136.Sh SEE ALSO 137.Xr apropos 1 , 138.Xr man 1 , 139.Xr manpath 1 , 140.Xr whatis 1 141