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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
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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

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