Re: Rebuilding Man database
Andrew Carton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes up with nothing is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix this? Depends on what the cause of the problem is, but if /usr/share/man/whatis isn't doing its job, then makewhatis(1) is what you are looking for. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebuilding Man database
On 2006-05-14 23:30, Andrew Carton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes up with nothing is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix this? Try to remove any stale cat pages (preformatted manpage files): # /usr/share/man # find cat* -type f | xargs rm -f Repeat the same for any other directories in your MANPATH, and see if that fixes the problems you are seeing... - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
