Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!kevin From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) Subject: Re: man pages Message-ID: <1991Apr9.230000.11048@nuchat.sccsi.com> Keywords: man pages Organization: /users/kevin/./files/news/comp/os/minix References: Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 23:00:00 GMT In article klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes: >In cs342a37@cs.iastate.edu (Class login) writes: > >>I cannot get man to run on user other than the root. On other users, I keep getting "unknown terminal". Can some one th tell me how to fix that? >>thanks > >Sounds like an unreadable /etc/termcap file to me. >Or is root the only user who has TERM set & exported? Check your user >.profile's! The shell, when starting up, looks for a file called /etc/profile, and if it is found, executes it. This is done before it looks for the home .profile and executes that (but the code does it in reverse order from that, by "pushing" the file onto a stack or something. The shell has GOT to be the least documented source code supplied with Minix. Anyone got a fully- documented version?). In any case, if you want a system-wide default TERM type, you can set it in /etc/profile. Then any user who wants something different can put it in their .profile. >Klamer >-- >Klamer Schutte >Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands >klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer -- Kevin Brown Disclaimer: huh? kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com csci31f7@cl.uh.edu Minix -- the Unix[tm] of the 90's. System V -- the Multics of the 90's. :-)