On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:37:29AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> Could be as simple as a corrupt database. try `mandb --create`
>
WOOOOooooooow ! Tried it. Did get use of man back (Thanks !), but
got many warnings (see below). And anyway, what would cause an otherwise
sweet and innocent DB to become corrupt in the first place ? Are there some
underlying problems that I should be worried about ?
Thanks,
Gerald
mandb: warning:
/usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8) failed
whatis parse for mailq(8) failed
whatis parse for sendmail(8) failed
whatis parse for runq(8) failed
whatis parse for rmail(8) failed
whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed
whatis parse for qcrack(1) failed
whatis parse for endian(1) failed
whatis parse for qext(1) failed
whatis parse for qinit(1) failed
whatis parse for uupath(1) failed
whatis parse for ps2frag(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man3/man.tmp: ignoring bogus filename
ignoring bogus filename
whatis parse for paperdone(3paper) failed
whatis parse for paperfirst(3paper) failed
whatis parse for paperwithsize(3paper) failed
whatis parse for paperlast(3paper) failed
whatis parse for defaultpapername(3paper) failed
whatis parse for papernext(3paper) failed
whatis parse for paperprev(3paper) failed
whatis parse for systempapersizefile(3paper)failed
whatis parse for ioctl_list(2) failed
/usr/man/man7/undocumented.7*: competing extensions
whatis parse for groff_mmse(7) failed
Checking for stray cats under /usr/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/catman...
Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man...
Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local...
Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man...
Checking for stray cats under /usr/X11R6/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/X11R6...
27 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
1880 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.
# mandb: warning: /usr/man/man
