Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:45:39 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Andrew Carton <dhaishin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding Man database Message-ID: <44y7x03gu4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060515063049.11899.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Andrew Carton's message of "Sun, 14 May 2006 23:30:49 -0700 (PDT)") References: <20060515063049.11899.qmail@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Andrew Carton <dhaishin@yahoo.com> writes: > Disturbingly, some of my man pages are not working, i.e. man man comes up with nothing.... is there a way to rebuild the man database to fix this? Depends on what the cause of the problem is, but if /usr/share/man/whatis isn't doing its job, then makewhatis(1) is what you are looking for.
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