No. I'll check when I get home. However, I have ls colours on, and I
didn't see that file shaded as a symlink.
Mike
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:38:18PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Have you checked, if makeindex.1.gz is not a link to undocumented.gz?
>
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> > Hey guys. I'm having some problems with my manpages. I have my MANPATH
> > environment variable set to /usr/man:/usr/share/man. Now, under
> > /usr/share/man/man1 I have makeindex.1.gz. However, when I type "man
> > makeindex", I get nothing. Normally, that'd be fine.
> > Also, I just checked my weekly cronjobs, and found this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # Last modification: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:06:59 +0300
> > # man-db cron weekly
> >
> > # regenerate man database
> > if test -x /usr/bin/mandb
> > then /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mandb --create 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
> > fi
> >
> > So, just in case, I ran it. It didn't help.
> >
> > So, I guess I have the following questions:
> >
> > 1. Why doesn't man respect my MANPATH and work?
> > 2. What is the man-db for and how does that work?
> > 3. Where does man -k look for its data and how do I rebuild that?
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> > Optical Networks, Nortel Networks
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> > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
> >
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Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
