Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 08:25:49 -0500 From: "Michael P. Deslippe" <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil> To: bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil, Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run? Message-ID: <199701281321.IAA02181@lists.dcro.dla.mil> In-Reply-To: <199701280719.IAA01470@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> References: bgy2452's message of Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:49:11 -0500. <199701280444.XAA00989@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
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Actually, I have ran it. I've tried:
makewhatis $MANPATH
makewhatis /usr/local/man
/usr/bin/makewhatis /usr/share/man
I've run them as root and as a user and I always get the same
message:
su-2.00# makewhatis -v /var/qmail/man
su: /usr/bin/makewhatis: No such file or directory
There *IS* a whatis file in the directories /usr/local/man and
/usr/share/man, but they won't update and using it in the qmail
directory return the error above. Sometimes WHATIS returns info,
sometimes not - there are many cases where apropos returns something
but WHATIS will not. I can also see the MAN pages have been added
since the last date of the WHATIS file (I assume this means it hasn't
been updated with that info) and as you can see, I continue to get
the errors on the weekly event. The WHATIS file is _rw_r__r__
p.s. I didn't think I had a WHATIS database because I'd never used
it and received the errors I mentioned. When I lloked in the two
directories, there is something there.
Thanks,
---Mike
> To: bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil
> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run?
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 08:19:40 +0100
> From: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
> ---------
>
> 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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