Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:24:58 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Kris Anderson <animotions@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makewhatis fails Message-ID: <20000907172458.A14585@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <OE50hWcqkl0v9znBimj000019b6@hotmail.com>; from "Kris Anderson" on Thu Sep 7 15:26:22 GMT 2000 References: <OE50hWcqkl0v9znBimj000019b6@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 07), Kris Anderson said: > I started getting the following errors in the weekly runs. I asked > on various news groups as to how to correct this as I've looked at > the man pages for makewhatis and it doesn't offer any help. I tried > searching through the mail-archives on the subject but they don't > seem to have anything that comes close to showing a resolution to > this, well one that I've found at least. > > Here's what I'm getting in the weekly mailing - > > Cannot find file: /usr/local/man/man1/slogin1.1.gz > Cannot find file: /usr/local/man/man1/slogin.1.gz > Cannot find file: /usr/local/man/man1/sftp.old.1 > Cannot find file: /usr/local/man/man1/scp.old.1 > > I know they're not there because they were removed, so how do I get > makewhatis to totally forget about 'em? They are probably broken symlinks. slogin.1.gz is a symlink to ssh.1.gz, etc. Just remove the files. When you did a pkg_delete, it should have removed ssh.1.gz and slogin.1.gz, but apparently it didn't get both of them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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