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Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?



ktb@nixnotes.org wrote:
>I really don't know definitively so someone else may have a better 
>answer but according to the man man-page -
>
>/var/cache/man/ is an alternate database cache. 
>
>/usr/share/man/ is a traditional database cache.
>
>From the man-page -
>/usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag).
>         A traditional global index database cache.
>
>/var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
>         An alternate or FHS compliant global index database cache.
>
>My /var/cache/man/ directories are empty also.  
>So I think your looking for /usr/share/man/

As far as I know no Debian man browser stores preformatted pages in
/usr/share/man. If they do, please file a bug.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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