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man not working for few cmds

  • 1.  man not working for few cmds

    Posted Tue August 04, 2015 10:50 PM

    Originally posted by: arunnatarajan


    Hi All,

     

    man command is not working in AIX 7.1 for few commands. here is an example . plz assist to fix the same.

     

    bash-4.3# man bootinfo
    Manual entry for bootinfo not found or not installed.
    bash-4.3# man bootlist
    bash-4.3#

     



  • 2.  Re: man not working for few cmds

    Posted Thu August 06, 2015 09:21 AM

    Originally posted by: DaveMarquardt


    I see what you see with man bootinfo. For man bootlist I get the bootlist man page as expected.



  • 3.  Re: man not working for few cmds

    Posted Thu August 06, 2015 11:38 AM

    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    There is no man page for bootinfo.  There was a man page in 4.3 but it not considered a user-level command.

     

    The bootinfo command is used during the boot and BOS install to gather and display information.  Users should use getconf.

     

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1010828