Where did I set that most displays my man pages?

Detlef Lechner Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net
Wed Oct 28 12:59:25 UTC 2009


James Michael Fultz wrote:
>
> Unless overridden by $MANPAGER or $PAGER, I think that man on Ubuntu and
> Debian defaults to using '/usr/bin/pager' which is a symlink managed by
> the alternatives system.  

This was a very good hint.
/usr/bin/pager is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/pager.
/etc/alternatives /pager was a symlink to /bin/less.
I changed that to:
/etc/alternatives/pager is a symlink to /usr/bin/most.

Thank you very much for your help.

Detlef




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