[X-Unix] 10.4: manpath seems not to be working properly

[Jason Verlander]

Kent,

Thanks for the tip. This is how I addressed the problem.

Incidentally the -w parameter is not recognized by whatever version  
of makewhatis I have installed though its man page makes mention of  
it as an available switch.
Runing strings on the makewhatis binary returns this line:

$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c,v 1.9 2002/09/04  
23:29:04 dwmalone Exp $

I'm not sure if a clean 10.4 install uses a newer version of this  
tool. Running it with no parameters set seems to work though.

Cheers,
Jason

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On May 17, 2005, at 16:38, Kent Behrends wrote:

> I also lost that search path. I added it to /usr/share/misc/man.conf:
>
> MANPATH /usr/local/man
>
> Then I rebuild the whatis database:
>
> sudo makewhatis -w
>
> You can verify the path man searches with:
>
> man --path