Try, as root, executing mandb
This should hopefully update your man database. Though I have to admit, I'm having problems with the whatis feature, and I'm trying to figure out when it stopped working - when I updated to the latest slink or kde. Did your man problems happen after a upgrade ? On 20-Oct-98 Saisanthosh B wrote: > Man I try to update my man pages cache I get the following > error message: > > [~] $ man -u bash > Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...man: can't open > /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or > ROFF `.so' request > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF > `.so' request > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF > `.so' request > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.xemacs20.1.gz is a dangling symlink > man: can't open /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request > > > The first line of the error message states that /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1 > is not found. But AFAIK, I did not delete any manpage in /usr/man/* > > BTW, what package does gnuserv.1 (must be emacs) belong to and why are > the man pages of gnuattach.xemacs.20.1.gz (and other such files) > pointing to the man page of gnuserv (which does not exist) ?? > > -- > "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot > of different places, just write a Unix operating system." > (By Linus Torvalds) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Geoffrey L. Brimhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Oct-98 Time: 17:37:53 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
