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Article #126954.0 man -k not scanning all whatis files
From: Paul O'Neill
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 09:43
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 09:43
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A workaround: Just append all the whatis files together. __________ TESTED __________ cd /usr/local/man [ rm whatis ] ( if it's a link to /usr/share/man/whatis ) [ catman -w -M /usr/local/man ] ( make local's own whatis ) cp -ip /usr/share/man/whatis /usr/share/man/whatis- ( in case you blow it ) cat whatis >> /usr/share/man/whatis ( append to standard whatis ) mv whatis whatis- ( keep a copy ) ln -s /usr/share/man/whatis whatis ( link to standard whatis ) __________ UNTESTED __________ If you do "catman -w" regularily from a cron job, look at modifying /usr/lib/makewhatis to append them all together. Remove and touch /usr/share/man/whatis first. (Cron job 1 minute earlier?) Make all other whatis's links to /usr/share/man/whatis. Change "> whatis" to ">> whatis" in /usr/lib/makewhatis. Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: pvo1478@oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 4.0 man -k not scanning all whatis files Keywords: Software Message-ID: <8904270445.AA03015@sapphire.oce.orst.edu> Date: 9 May 89 09:43:14 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 26 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 21:45:44 PDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 278, message 14 of 24