Subject: Re: Man pages...
To: Juha Sievi-Korte <davy@sci.fi>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/01/1998 16:24:07
Juha Sievi-Korte wrote:
> 
> Now, when i have installed some new programs to my system eg. emacs,
> tcsh, lesstiff, mozilla etc. How can i get man to use those manpages.
> I've run /usr/libexec/makewhatis, but that didn't help. So if someone
> can tell me what should i do after installing those programs to get this
> working.

I would edit /etc/man.conf eg:

_default      /usr/{share,X11R6,local}/{man,share,teTeX,atalk,pgsql}/{man,}

_whatdb         /usr/local/teTeX/man/whatis.db

and run eg.

/usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/local/teTeX/man

Cheers,

Patrick