> } >I'm looking for the "correct" way to rebuild the whatis database.
> } 
> } cd /usr/src/share/man; make whatdb

This should actually be:

cd /usr/src/share/man ; make makedb
 
>      What happened to 'catman -w'?

Dunno - the sources are there in usr.sbin/catman.  The comment in
usr.sbin/Makefile says:

# not yet done: catman

and it's been there like that for about a year. I had a spate of compiling
it last year, but got fed up.

Cheers,
Alistair
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