Online Documentation and Man Pages

All Trusted Solaris manuals are available in online format from the Trusted Solaris 8 AnswerBook CD-ROM (704-7506-10) and at the Sun website: http://www.sun.com/docs and can be printed from these sources if desired.

In addition to the online documentation, online help is provided in the Trusted Solaris operating environment through the Front Panel help icon, help menus, and help buttons.

An extensive library of man pages for the Trusted Solaris 8 operating environment is available in the Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual mentioned above and from the command line using the man(1) command.

If a man page is in both the Solaris and the Trusted Solaris reference manuals, refer to the man page in the Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual, since it includes the differences unique to the Trusted Solaris operating environment.

For an overview of the Trusted Solaris environment with a complete listing of available commands, see the following introductory man pages for each section of the reference manual:

• Intro(1)

• Intro(1M)

• Intro(2)

• Intro(3)

• Intro(4)

• Intro(5)

• Intro(7)

• Intro(9)

• Intro(9F)

Accessing Trusted Solaris Man Pages

The man pages for the Trusted Solaris environment reside in three different directories. For the man command to find all the Trusted Solaris man pages, your man page path needs to be set to find the three directories in the following list, along with any other directories where man pages are installed at your site.

• /usr/man

• /usr/openwin/man

• /usr/dt/man

For C shell users, the MANPATH variable can be set individually by users in their shell initialization files or globally by administrators in site-wide shell initialization files in /etc/skel (or alternate skeleton directory) to be copied into the home directories for all users. To set the MANPATH variable, enter:

trusted% setenv MANPATH="/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man:$MANPATH"

To check a system's current MANPATH setting, enter:

echo $MANPATH

This should display the three paths mentioned above and any other paths to man pages at your site.

Specifying Man Pages by Section Number

To check whether different versions of a topic exist in different sections, enter man with the -l option:

trusted% man -l topic

To specify man pages by section, use the man with the -s option:

trusted % man -s sectionnumber topic

The following example shows the results of using the -l option to find all the Intro man pages.

trusted% man -l Intro
Intro (1)   -M /usr/man
Intro (1m)  -M /usr/man
Intro (2)   -M /usr/man
Intro (3)   -M /usr/man
Intro (9f)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9s)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9e)  -M /usr/man
Intro (9)   -M /usr/man
Intro (4)   -M /usr/man
Intro (5)   -M /usr/man
Intro (7)   -M /usr/man
Intro (6)   -M /usr/man

By default, if you enter man topic in the Trusted Solaris environment without specifying the section and there are multiple sections containing man pages with the same name, the man page for the lowest numbered section displays, for example:

trusted% man Intro 
Trusted Solaris User Commands                                Intro(1)
NAME
     Intro, intro - Introduction to commands and application programs

DESCRIPTION
  ...

The following example illustrates specifying a section number:

trusted% man -s7 intro
Trusted Solaris Device and Network Interfaces              Intro(7)

NAME
     Intro, intro - Introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION
      ...