Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:17:58 -0600 (CST) From: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: crtb@capecod.net, grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is man so slow? Message-ID: <199711071617.KAA11377@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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> >On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:38:02PM -0500, Chuck wrote: > [ ... ] > >Could it be that you are missing the directories > >/usr/share/man/cat[1-9], or they are not writeable? When a new > > Sho nuff! So I just created 'em, gave 'em to man.bin, and voila! > > >version of the system is installed, the contents of these directories > >are removed, and the first time you access a man page, it needs to be > >formatted with nroff. It then *tries* to save the formatted man page > >in the cat* hierarchy, but if it doesn't succeed, it won't complain, What I usually do: % su # this gets me to root # su man # this makes me "man" % catman `manpath` & # pre-nroff the man pages % exit # exit % The above is good for several hours of disk crunching. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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