man pages won't work

[Smith, Donald]

To fix your whatis database just do a makewhatis or catman -w to rebuild the
index for your new manpages.
MANPATH probably needs to be set to find manpages in /usr/local/man.

Donald Smith
Staff IP Engineer
IP Network Engineering Security
303-226-9939 Office
303-226-0688 fax
720-320-1537 cell


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Itkin [mailto:nitkin at europa.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 7:56 PM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: man pages won't work
> 
> 
> My workaround was to distribute the formatted files 
> (/.../man/cat{1,8})
> created using gnroff/mandoc to the systems without those utilities.
> You don't have a whatis database, but otherwise it works fine.
> 
> -- 
> - Nate Itkin
> - Nate.Itkin at europa.com
> - "Looking for an off-ramp on the Information Superhighway"
>