Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:53:14 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: i386 man pages ignored by whatis Message-ID: <20020326235314.B300@welearn.com.au>
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It looks like the man pages that are under the i386 subdirectories
are not getting picked up by whatis.
This is on a 4.4R box. I see similar problems with other man pages
that live under i386 subdirectories. The FreeBSD man page search
page tells me fibbers about them too.
What is the simple and tidy fix?
Demo:
$ locate spkr.4.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/i386/spkr.4.gz
$ man spkr
SPKR(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual (i386 Architecture) SPKR(4)
NAME
speaker, spkr - console speaker device driver
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device speaker
#include <machine/speaker.h>
DESCRIPTION
The speaker device driver allows applications to control the PC console
speaker on an IBM-PC--compatible machine running FreeBSD.
[... rest of man page is displayed ...]
$ apropos spkr
spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver
$ man -k 4 spkr
spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver
$ whatis spkr
spkr: nothing appropriate
$ whatis speaker
spkrtest(8) - test script for the speaker driver
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Regards,
-*Sue*-
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