Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:46:52 -0500 From: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 man pages ignored by whatis Message-ID: <20020326084651.A7736@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020326133452.GB7527@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:34:53PM %2B0100 References: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au> <20020326133452.GB7527@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:34:53PM +0100, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> [2002-03-26 23.53 +1100]: > > 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. > > This is odd. I get the same results, so after doing a bit of > reading-up on whatis and makewhatis, I manually set root's $MANPATH > to include /usr/share/man/man4/i386, and then ran 'makewhatis'. > > Didn't work. 'Aha', I thought, 'I'll create > /usr/share/man/man4/i386/man, and cp spkr.4.gz to that directory'. I > did that, updated root's $MANPATH, and then ran 'makewhatis $MANPATH'. > > That didn't work either :( > > So... > > What is the simple and tidy fix? > > I'm afraid I don't know (yet ;-)). Have you tried to hack your way > around this in any way? Did you add the directory to /etc/manpath.config? I can't believe I forgot about this in my first reply. > > -- > Regards, > Martin Karlsson > -- ___________________________________________________________ "MR NUTTY HOW CAN YOU SMOKE A PIPE INSIDE A MOVIE THEATRE???" - Pokey the Penguin from "THE BENEFITS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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