On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:03:45AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > I have just installed and built owfs on my little ubuntu 10.04 system. > > I couldn't find any man pages for the owfs commands etc., a little > searching revealed the following problems:- > > For mandb to rebuild the man page indexes and so that the owfs man > pages can be found entries need to be added to /etc/manpath.config. > This meybe different on other systems of course. > > I added the requisite lines to /etc/manpath.config. and ran mandb > and saw lots of errors/warnings about some of the files. On looking > I see that many of the man page entries in /opt/owfs/share/man/xx > have file names ending in .1so rather than the normal .1. The mandb > command complains about these. > > Are the man pages ending in .1so different/special in some way, i.e. is > the naming intentional, or is this an error? > I now realise that the .so stuff is a roff special, the pages are supposed to be links to other pages. However the links aren't working, that's what mandb is complaining about.
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