Ethan Benson wrote:
> >It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this:
> >
> >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 how mandb
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 appropr
I'm sorry to ask this question, but did you run mandb as root?
On 5/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this:
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 how mandb wor
David Teague wrote:
>
> You may have fixed the problem, and not recognize it.
>
> If you are getting 'nothing appropriate' that may be the correct
> answer. For example, on my system,
>
> elentari:~[1]man -k ls
> ls (1) - list contents of directories
> mkls-lR (8) - Make l
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?
If you get a manpage then it is the db to be rebuilt (mandb -c from
root),
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brian Stults wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly:
> > /etc/cron.weekly/mandb
> > should make it run now, it takes a while.
>
> I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other
> suggestions?
Brian
You
Ethan Benson wrote:
> the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly:
> /etc/cron.weekly/mandb
> should make it run now, it takes a while.
I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian
> On 4/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
>
> >When I
On 4/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
[anything]: nothing appropriate
It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything". I have the
environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile:
MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man
I have no MANPATH set on my slink-r4 and everything works fine and when
I set it to what you mentioned in your mail, it works as well. Maybe
that means that the error is something else.
Hope it helps ...
- Konrad
Hi,
When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
[anything]: nothing appropriate
It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything". I have the
environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile:
MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man
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