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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PPP setup question on FreeBSD Date: 19 Oct 1993 18:31:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2a1bq9$ldb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2a0md1$duf@alva.ge.com> <2a102g$ibb@alva.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2a102g$ibb@alva.ge.com>, Stephen F. Combs <steve@combs.salem.ge.com> wrote: >Also, How in the $@&%! do you get the whatis.db to build??? I've tried the >Makefile in '/usr/src/share/man' doing a 'make makedb' and it just sits there >and does nothing (over 24hours and nothing gets done). # makewhatis /usr/share/man /usr/local/man /usr/X386/man should do the trick for you. We've updated the Makefiles to be more straight- forward in doing this for you. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me