[OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, If may man command does not display some of the pages including those clearly present under /usr/share/man - how do I fix that? I remember there was a command that rebuilt the catalog, I just can't recall what it was. Thanks. Boris.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
catman -w create the windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and -k options. No manual reformatting is done. Mike Hello listmates, If may man command does not display some of the pages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Schuster
I don't think that was what OP was asking for ... Michael On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: catman -w create the windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and -k

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Mike, Thanks! Just ran catman -w Unfortunately, that did not seem to do the trick. Boris. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: catman -w create the windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man(1)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Why? That was exactly the sort of thing I was asking for. The command suggested, catman -w , did not do the trick though. Boris. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Michael Schuster michaelspriv...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that was what OP was asking for ... Michael On Tue, Oct 9,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Doug Hughes
catman -w rebuilds the index (-M to supply directory) On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, If may man command does not display some of the pages including those clearly present under /usr/share/man - how do I fix that? I remember there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Schuster
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Why? That was exactly the sort of thing I was asking for. The command suggested, catman -w , did not do the trick though. then either you worded it differently from what you actually wanted, or this is indeed something