Re: man problems
Subject: man problems
Date: Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:07:10AM -0500
In reply to:Marc Mongeon
Quoting Marc Mongeon(mongeon@bankoe.com):
> I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man
> pages. I've never had to do anything special before to see man pages
> after installation. What follows is system information and some shell
> dialog (all commands executed as root, "i>" is what I typed in and "o>"
> is the system response.
>
> i> ls -l /usr/man/man8/gettyps*
> o> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7654 Feb 26 1998 /usr/man/man8/gettyps.8.gz
>
> i> man gettyps
> o> No manual entry for gettyps
>
have you tried man 8 gettyps ??
> i> mandb
> o> Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /usr/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /var/catman...
> o> Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local...
> o> Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /usr/X11R6/man...
> o> Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/X11R6...
> o> 0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
> o> 0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.
>
> i> man gettyps
> o> No manual entry for gettyps
>
>
> I can see the man page sitting there, why can't man?
>
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