From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 4:53:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (unknown [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4AF37B417 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 04:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2QCrEZ00748 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:53:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:53:14 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: i386 man pages ignored by whatis Message-ID: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks like the man pages that are under the i386 subdirectories are not getting picked up by whatis. This is on a 4.4R box. I see similar problems with other man pages that live under i386 subdirectories. The FreeBSD man page search page tells me fibbers about them too. What is the simple and tidy fix? Demo: $ locate spkr.4.gz /usr/share/man/man4/i386/spkr.4.gz $ man spkr SPKR(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual (i386 Architecture) SPKR(4) NAME speaker, spkr - console speaker device driver SYNOPSIS pseudo-device speaker #include DESCRIPTION The speaker device driver allows applications to control the PC console speaker on an IBM-PC--compatible machine running FreeBSD. [... rest of man page is displayed ...] $ apropos spkr spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver $ man -k 4 spkr spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver $ whatis spkr spkr: nothing appropriate $ whatis speaker spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message