Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:23:20 -0400 From: jimmie james <jimmiejaz@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: makewhatis oddness (weekly run output) Message-ID: <7e148fb9050423072315d0e748@mail.gmail.com>
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FreeBSD fortytwo.zapto.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 15 02:32:55 EDT 2005 root@fortytwo.zapto.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO i386 >From the weekly run output, I get: Rebuilding whatis database: makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/cowthink.1: No such file or directory makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man5/slapd-hdb.5: No such file or directory ls -al /usr/local/man/man1/cowthink.1 == lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Jun 8 2004 /usr/local/man/man1/cowthink.1 -> cowsay.1 jimmie@fortytwo /usr/local/man/man1 # ls -al cow* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2209 Jun 8 2004 cowsay.1.gz lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Jun 8 2004 cowthink.1 -> cowsay.1 ls -al makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man5/slapd-hdb.5 == lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Apr 18 13:41 /usr/local/man/man5/slapd-hdb.5 -> slapd-bdb.5 ls -al /usr/local/man/man5/slapd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2880 Apr 18 13:41 /usr/local/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5.gz lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Apr 18 13:41 /usr/local/man/man5/slapd-hdb.5 -> slapd-bdb.5 So, the files and links are there, and there are other linked man pages in the same dir(exampe) lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Feb 2 03:52 wvConvert.1.gz -> wvWare.1.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1243 Feb 2 03:52 wvWare.1.gz man (1) makewhatis makes no mention of links. man slapd-bdb works, man slapd-bdb.5 doesn't, nor does man slapd-hdb. man cowsay works. Any hints of what's going on? Thanks, Jimmie
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