From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 14:23:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F90316A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:23:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E3243D31 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:23:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jimmiejaz@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so913709wri for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:23:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OBNG0TiRn7PIvr1GHwPEGWEZDdlf1dbz/9TS88+r+TS3gKTDrfYqtTgEzs6/WX60thSbapmO0ddnXpPTITB4aEQLmbdRJqvGeDbtijiTl8tTWZ6zLlnAYsucoQGOgbQ2nIzPV9njfkaGnDzIF7eeZjWbzY8TOODgku4XCULibsI= Received: by 10.54.56.40 with SMTP id e40mr985942wra; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.42.14 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7e148fb9050423072315d0e748@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:23:20 -0400 From: jimmie james To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: makewhatis oddness (weekly run output) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jimmie james List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:23:21 -0000 FreeBSD fortytwo.zapto.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 15 02:32:55 EDT 2005 =20 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 =3D=3D 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 =3D=3D 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,=20 Jimmie