Re: man pages

[Daniel Reuter <reuter@Uni-Hohenheim.DE>]

Hello Michael,

Have you checked, if makeindex.1.gz is not a link to undocumented.gz?

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:

> 	Hey guys. I'm having some problems with my manpages. I have my MANPATH
> environment variable set to /usr/man:/usr/share/man. Now, under
> /usr/share/man/man1 I have makeindex.1.gz. However, when I type "man
> makeindex", I get nothing. Normally, that'd be fine. 
> 	Also, I just checked my weekly cronjobs, and found this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Last modification: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:06:59 +0300
> # man-db cron weekly
> 
> # regenerate man database
> if test -x /usr/bin/mandb 
> then    /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mandb --create 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
> fi
> 
> 	So, just in case, I ran it. It didn't help. 
> 
> 	So, I guess I have the following questions:
> 
> 1. Why doesn't man respect my MANPATH and work?
> 2. What is the man-db for and how does that work?
> 3. Where does man -k look for its data and how do I rebuild that?
> 
> 	Help?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	Mike
> 
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