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From: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
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Subject: Re: i386 man pages ignored by whatis
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:53:14PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> 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?

This could be a long shot, but are those directories in root's
manpath? Sounds like makewhatis.local isn't picking up
those directories during its weekly run.

> 
> 
> 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 <machine/speaker.h>
> 
> 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*-
>  
>  
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