Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result: > > > > [anything]: nothing appropriate > > and when you try man [anything] what do you get?
man [anything] works (for appropriate anythings). > If you get a manpage then it is the db to be rebuilt (mandb -c from > root), if you get No manual entry for [anything] then [anything] is > really not appropriate :-) I tried mandb -c and got: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied I don't know enough about mandb to interpret this correctly. Anyone know what file it is trying to create and where? > It is always better to leave that env var unset, unless you have very > specific stuff to add there. > In any case, /usr/bin/man cannot go there! > Use the command manpath to see if this setting is harming you; it should > reply: > /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man > Thanks for the advice. I don't remember when or why I added the manpath env var, but I removed it now. I do indeed get the above result from "manpath". Thanks. Still can't get man -k to work, though. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
