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Hi!

In message <199701280444.XAA00989@lists.dcro.dla.mil>,
"Michael P. Deslippe" writes:

>Rebuilding whatis database:
>Memory fault - core dumped
>
>I don't have a WHATIS database, and why did I get a core dump?
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6

Why you don't have? Whatis is a really helpfull command/database. You can do a 
quick search of a word in the short description line of the man pages. Each 
man directory has such a whatis database (e.g. /usr/local/man/whatis). The 
script /etc/weekly rebuilds this database to handle changes in the man pages.

Try by hand as root:

makewhatis /usr/share/man
makewhatis /usr/local/man
.....

and see what happens

Regards and good luck

Lars
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