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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:18:36 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
Message-ID:  <20071029191836.GA58058@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071029132447.GA2658@kobe.laptop>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> wrote:
> > Thbbt!  I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV.  Wish I could
> > disable  that "feature".  Oh well.  I'll delete it all and rebuild it
> > again if needed.  Thanks!
> 
> Ah, that's it then :)
> 
> My usual `installworld' steps include this too:
> 
> 	# cd /usr/share/man
> 	# find cat[0-9] \! -type d -exec rm {} +

There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which
rebuilds all the catman pages for you.  However, it makes an immense
mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff formatting
mistakes.  Have a look:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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