On 3 May 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

> > BTW. catman doesn't work. no matter what option i use it does
> > nothing. i do read manual
> 
> Same here. I didn't manage to make it work either.

I did some tests with catman.

catman(8) uses /etc/man.conf. This is not documented in the manual page.
catman first looks at the /etc/man.conf's _default setting.

Then if it contains "man/man", it continues on to scan the man directory.
With the default _default (/usr/{share,X11R6,local,pkg}/man/) it never
continues.

I am not sure why it checks for "man/man".

I made it only check for "man"; it then failed when it tried to
opendir(/usr/{share,X11R6,local,pkg}/man/).

So I changed _default to /usr/share/man/, then it does "mkdir
/usr/share/man/cat". I stopped debugging there ...

Can anyone explain the issues I noticed above?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/