Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:44:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Andrew Carton <dhaishin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding Man database Message-ID: <20060515124415.GA33053@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060515063049.11899.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060515063049.11899.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2006-05-14 23:30, Andrew Carton <dhaishin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes
> up with nothing.... is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix
> this?
Try to remove any stale "cat pages" (preformatted manpage files):
# /usr/share/man
# find cat* -type f | xargs rm -f
Repeat the same for any other directories in your MANPATH, and see if
that fixes the problems you are seeing...
- Giorgos
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