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From: Mark Hunnibell <hunnibel@cris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Where's my man?! (BSDI 2.0)
Date: 7 Nov 1995 01:13:36 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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Yikes!
A few weeks ago, I noticed that my man pages were suddenly not available
for some reason. Here is an example:
{7} % man grep
man: no entry for grep in the manual.
So I checked my .login file and .cshrc file to see if there was something
missing or messed. Here is the setenv line from .login:
setenv MANPATH /man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man
On this system, there are no /man or /usr/man directories. In the
/usr/local/man (which does exist) there are a bunch of directories named
cat1 through cat8 and man8, but they are mostly empty.
Where did the stuff go? I *know* it was there a month ago. I used it!
Assuming that it has vanished from the system somehow, how can I rebuild
it? I am (allegedly) the system admin of the subject system and have
root and all that, but I do not think I have mis-stepped myself to cause
such a bad scene.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mark Hunnibell
markh@connix.com