Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 05:03:04 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> Cc: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 Message-ID: <20071104130304.GA11395@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20071104121040.GA12743@ravenloft.kiev.ua> References: <20071104121040.GA12743@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:10:40PM +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > 2) getting rid of catman and forcing man to generate a new one from > > scratch each time instead of filling up /usr/share/man/cat* with stale > > files. Is this going to be a big drain on a p4-era pc compared to > > something like another periodic.conf script? > > > > or > > > > 3) A compile or run-time option that disables catman as described above. > > If I knew of one, I'd enable it without a second thought on my cutting > > edge p3 desktop :) > Put weekly_catman_enable="NO" in your /etc/periodic.conf It defaults to "no". Regardless, I think you miss Andrew's point. AFAIK, there isn't any way to disable automatic creation of catman pages when "man" is run as root. Being able to disable that feature would ultimately solve this issue for those of us who don't want it (this thread has already mentioned the problems with it). That said -- for those running on embedded systems or systems with small amounts of disk, pre-formatted/catman pages are incredibly useful. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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