From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 13:09:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B36416A46D for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF57A13C4DB for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:09:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FC981CC05E; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 05:03:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 05:03:04 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Alex Kozlov Message-ID: <20071104130304.GA11395@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20071104121040.GA12743@ravenloft.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071104121040.GA12743@ravenloft.kiev.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Andrew Lankford , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:09:47 -0000 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 |