Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300, shaulka@bezeqint.net wrote:
> > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
> > On my machine it is empty:
> >
> > [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat?
> > /var/cache/man/cat1:
> >
>
> 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/
My /usr is mounted read only.
I believe man-db has expecting this sort of mounting.
I am running testing.
> kent
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