[OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

[Michael Schuster]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why? That was exactly the sort of thing I was asking for.
>
> The command suggested, catman -w , did not do the trick though.

then either you worded it differently from what you actually wanted,
or this is indeed something else :-)

the *index* that catman -w rebuilds is used for the "man -k" or
"apropos" commands, but not, AFAIK, for the actual display of man
pages - I'm sorry I don't know enough about the man infrastructure to
address the Q you initially asked.

cheers
Michael

> Boris.
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I don't think that was what OP was asking for ...
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Michael Stapleton
>> <michael.stapleton at techsologic.com> wrote:
>> > catman -w
>> >
>> > create the windex database that  is
>> >                          used  by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and
>> >                          -k options.  No manual  reformatting  is
>> >                          done.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> >> Hello listmates,
>> >>
>> >> If may man command does not display some of the pages including those
>> >> clearly present under /usr/share/man - how do I fix that? I remember
>> there
>> >> was a command that rebuilt the catalog, I just can't recall what it was.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Boris.
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