On 12/19/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Rick Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > since installing gcc-3 i've been getting weird messages with the man 
> > command.
> > for example...
> >
> > $ man sysctl
> > mandb: can't chmod /opt/gcc-3.3.6/man/index.bt: No such file or directory
> > mandb: warning: can't update index cache /opt/gcc-3.3.6/man/index.bt:
> > No such file or directory
> > mandb: No databases updated.
> > Reformatting sysctl(8), please wait...
>
> man-db will automatically add another path for manpages if it finds
> them in certain places, like /opt/*/man. But it needs to initialize a
> database there. Try this:
>
> mandb -c /opt/gcc-3.3.6/man
>
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that did it. Thanks!
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