After much digging around, I found that I had a
/usr/man as well as /usr/local/man and /usr/share/man..
Once I removed the whatis file in this directory, and then did
catman -w
all was fine again.
Thanks to fxjwk_at_aurora.alaska.edu and Sxrmh1_at_orca.alaska.edu
for helping me along the way to finding this on my own.
Pam
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Pam Woods, Systems Manager wrote:
>
> I did a man -k audit today and found that nothing was there.
> man audit_tools etc works, so the files are online..and I went
> looking and found..
> in the
> # pwd
> /usr/share/man
> # ls
> .MMEMANRT160.whatis man1 man8
> .OSFMANOP350.whatis man2 oldwhatis
> .OSFMANOS350.whatis man3 oldwhatis2
> .OSFMANRT350.whatis man4 whatis
> .OSFMANWOP350.whatis man5
> .OSFMANWOS350.whatis man7
>
> the audit stuff is in the .OSFMANOS350.whatis file but
> I can't get catman -w to pick this up.
> I do get this error:
>
> catman -w -M /usr/share/man
> sort: Warning: A newline character was added to the end of file
> /tmp/whatis.4586
> .s.
>
> so I must be missing something here. I've tried to rename/delete the
> whatis file that exists just incase...
> Thanks for the help.
> pam
>
>
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