Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:09:21 -1000 From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" <art@hawaii.rr.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> Cc: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whereis(1) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990908180921.008c8a50@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909090938440.2528-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftw are.co.nz> References: <3.0.6.32.19990908094749.008ca100@clients1.hawaii.rr.com>
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Ahhhh, the correct answer!! I read the manpages and saw that whereis
searches for manpages along $MANPATH however I couldn't find the bogus
symlink in any directory referenced by the $MANPATH in my environment,
i.e. echo $MANPATH yeilds:
/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man
I was not aware of /etc/manpath.config !!! Thanks a million
Jonathan for pointing this out. It wasn't a big problem but it was
irritating nonetheless.
At 09:39 AM 09/09/1999 +1200, you wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Art Neilson, KH7PZ wrote:
>
>> Whereis is driving me nuts, it thinks I have a directory however the
directory
>> does not exist. For example:
>>
>> root@pilikia# whereis myfile
>> Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man!
>> myfile:
>>
>> I do not have this directory.
>
>Comment out the reference to it in /etc/manpath.config, which
>contains a bogus reference to 5.00502.man.
>
>Jonathan Chen
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Don't forget the most important rule to live by..
> Never believe anything you read on the USENET"
>
>
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Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
art@hawaii.rr.com
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