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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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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