Appendix A Supplementary Documentation

This appendix discusses man pages, online documentation, and online help in the Trusted Solaris operating environment.

• "Using Man Pages"

• "Accessing Online Documentation and Help"

Using Man Pages

There is an extensive library of man pages available for the Trusted Solaris environment. For an overview of the system and a complete listing of commands, files, and routines available in the Trusted Solaris environment, see the following man pages:

• Intro(1)

• Intro(1M)

• Intro(2)

• Intro(3)

• Intro(4)

• Intro(5)

• Intro(7)

• Intro(9)

• Intro(9F)

Man Page Paths

The man pages for the Trusted Solaris environment reside in three different directories, which need to be included in your MANPATH environment variable:

• /usr/man

• /usr/openwin/man

• /usr/dt/man

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) for all users. To set the MANPATH variable, type:

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

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

% 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 there are different versions of a topic in different sections, type:

% man -l topic

To specify man pages by section, specify the topic and section number, as in the following:

% man -s sectionnumber topic

Accessing Online Documentation and Help

All Trusted Solaris documentation is available on the Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 AnswerBook CD-ROM and at the website: http://docs.sun.com/ where it can be viewed or downloaded in PDF format. In addition, online help is provided in the Trusted Solaris environment through the Front Panel help icon, help menus, and help buttons.