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Subject: Re: Rebuilding Man database
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Andrew Carton <dhaishin@yahoo.com> writes:

>     Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes up with nothing.... is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix this?

Depends on what the cause of the problem is, but if
/usr/share/man/whatis isn't doing its job, then makewhatis(1) 
is what you are looking for.