Re: "man" crashes

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> 
> When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man,
> man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault.
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
Need more information to be of any help.
What version of man are you using? What shell and it's version? 
Such problems in the past have been caused by a corupted index file. Try:
mandb /usr/local/man and see if that helps.

Luck,

Dwarf

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