From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 4 18: 9:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.knology.net (user-24-214-63-14.knology.net [24.214.63.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A53237B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:09:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2164 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 02:09:25 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-92-93.knology.net (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.92.93) by user-24-214-63-14.knology.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 02:09:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2529Lc47340; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:09:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200203050209.g2529Lc47340@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nicolas Rachinsky Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Changes to man page in 4.5-R? In-reply-to: Message from Nicolas Rachinsky of "Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:02:36 +0100." <20020304090236.GA70885@pc5.abc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:09:21 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicolas Rachinsky writes: > > But with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE a make world cycle does not build the > catpages within /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/cat*. So even with > MANBUILDCAT=YES in my make.conf, I have to wait when accessing a man > page the first time. These directories are created by a make world > cycle. Why is this such a fuss? Prebuilding your installed manpages is only this far away: # echo /usr/bin/catman | nice -5 su -m man Or you could put this in /etc/periodic.conf to have any new man pages preformatted once per week: weekly_catman_enable="YES" -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message