[X-Unix] XWindows

[William H. Magill]

On 25 May, 2005, at 04:13, Eugene wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:38:21AM CDT, Stroller  
> <MacMonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> : On May 24, 2005, at 6:22 pm, AKappyCT wrote:
> : >
> : >Interesting, man SSH (TIger) found no man page, man (Panther) SSH
> : >shows no Y flag.
> :
> : If you've just installed X11 on Tiger, `makewhatis` will probably  
> need
> : to be run before the man page shows up. Ot is rin as part of a  
> weekly
> : `cron` job, which is why you can find the man page on your Panther
> : system.
>
> I don't think makewhatis(8) needs to be run for the man page to  
> show up.
> By itself, man(1) uses /usr/share/misc/man.conf which defines the  
> MANPATH
> as /usr/share/man, /usr/local/share/man, and /usr/X11R6/man.  Since  
> the
> man page for ssh(1) is located in /usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1, you  
> can look
> there yourself and see if the file exists

There is no classic "makewhatis" command in Tiger.

There is /usr/libexec/makewhatis which expects "/usr/libexec/ 
makewhatis.local to handle local pages and is processed out of periodic.


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