Where did I set that most displays my man pages?

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 28 14:27:31 UTC 2009


Detlef Lechner wrote:

> 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.

You missed the point that it is managed by "alternatives".  You really 
shouldn't manually change these symlinks (I'm fairly certain future updates 
will change them back).
-- 
derek





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