Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 08:19:40 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> To: bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run? Message-ID: <199701280719.IAA01470@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> In-Reply-To: bgy2452's message of Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:49:11 -0500. <199701280444.XAA00989@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
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--------- Hi! In message <199701280444.XAA00989@lists.dcro.dla.mil>, "Michael P. Deslippe" writes: >Rebuilding whatis database: >Memory fault - core dumped > >I don't have a WHATIS database, and why did I get a core dump? > >I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6 Why you don't have? Whatis is a really helpfull command/database. You can do a quick search of a word in the short description line of the man pages. Each man directory has such a whatis database (e.g. /usr/local/man/whatis). The script /etc/weekly rebuilds this database to handle changes in the man pages. Try by hand as root: makewhatis /usr/share/man makewhatis /usr/local/man ..... and see what happens Regards and good luck Lars -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: | Lars Koeller Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE | Department of Physics ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de | University of Rostock PGP-key: | Germany http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/pks-toplev.html | ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org ------------
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