manual pages?

[_mj]

Has anyone installed man pages on their ReadyNAS?

It would be helpful for me to be able to access them directly on the ReadyNAS, but if it's not possible, or a complex installation, is there are online resources to view man pages, which correlate with same version of Linux?

Based on my basic research, is this the correct version of Linux/and corresponding man pages?
manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?manpath=Debian+3.1+sarge

[chirpa]

viewtopic.php?p=102947#p102947

[_mj]

Thanks for the link chirpa, I was able to follow the instructions in that thread to man installed, but it seems that just about all the manual pages are not available (for example, man ls). The only one that did have manual pages were what I just installed with apt-get (man-db and less).

[chirpa]

The base image would have these striped out to keep the firmware image small. You would need to re-install those debian packages to get the specific man pages back.

[_mj]

The base image would have these striped out to keep the firmware image small. You would need to re-install those debian packages to get the specific man pages back.

Make sense. I'll look into the best way to it without taking any chances in breaking a working package.

As an alternative, would it be safe to assume that the manual pages found on the Debian site that I linked to (manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?manpath=Debian+3.1+sarge) are accurate for the current version of the firmware?

[tcblack]

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=102947#p102947

sadly that little howto has gone MIA.

[chirpa]

It willl be back, most likely this weekend when I have more time to dig in the db.

[tcblack]

patience mode= on
stack error defined = cannot wait
insert chirpa override...
output: frustration

[chirpa]

The contents on that post are:

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# echo man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh >> /etc/passwd
# echo man:x:12: >> /etc/group
# apt-get install man-db

[tcblack]

insert last post:
Output: me very happy.

Thanks Chirpa!

[_mj]

To install basic man pages such as ls, rm, etc (apt-get does not work for this package) .. installs to /usr/share/man:

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wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.70.orig.tar.gz
gunzip -d manpages_1.70.orig.tar.gz
tar -xvf manpages_1.70.orig.tar
cd man-pages-1.70
make install


[sanydear]

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# echo man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh >> /etc/passwd
# echo man:x:12: >> /etc/group
# apt-get install man-db

My results:
apt-get fails.

I followed the post
wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... rig.tar.gz
gunzip -d manpages_1.70.orig.tar.gz
tar -xvf manpages_1.70.orig.tar
cd man-pages-1.70
make install

1.70 was not found, but I did run it with 3.05 instead. The man command is not found. I am running updatedb so locate will work.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[sanydear]

Ok, apt is now installed.

I have /usr/src/man-pages-3.05 and ran 'make install' after unpacking the manpages 3.05 tar.gz file.

I can't get past the 'apt-get install man-db' command and have it work.

[sanydear]

I/We give up.

The ReadyNAS 1100 is not business ready. It is about out of here because it's too slow, there is little if any support, and even though we were granted SSH access by our masters, the lack of man pages makes everything 10 times harder to do or manage.

I have several unanswered questions on this board, and have been lobbying against this device for some time. In the next few days it's finally gone.

Thanks to anyone who tried to help.

[mdgm]

I'd recommend looking at them on the web.

Do e.g. "ls --help" on the NAS then search for the MAN page on the web. Should indicate how to use the command.

The MAN pages are deliberately stripped from the firmware to keep the firmware size down.

Are there any other issues that you are having?