Re: apropos/whatis
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> > > > So, it's kinda working. ;)
> > > oups, which version of mandb is installed on you machine? (and which
> > > kernel are you working with?)
> > ii man-db 2.3.10-65 Display the on-line manual.
> >
> > Kernel is 2.0.33 with the alpha-patches-2.0.32-0.1 applied. No
> > problems compiling the kernel.
> what happens, if you execute
> mandb -c
This is what I get (miata box, I also have problems with man):
lobo:~# mandb -c
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
mandb: can't create index cache /var/catman/8571: Bad file descriptor
mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/catman/8571: Bad file
descriptor
Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man...
mandb: can't create index cache /var/catman/local/8571: Bad file
descriptor
mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/catman/local/8571: Bad file
descriptor
Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man...
mandb: can't create index cache /var/catman/X11R6/8571: Bad file
descriptor
mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/catman/X11R6/8571: Bad file
descriptor
0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.
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