[21042] in Athena Bugs
whatis, man -k, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carter Snowden)
Fri Nov 8 13:07:01 2002
From: Carter Snowden <csnowden@MIT.EDU>
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Date: 08 Nov 2002 13:06:59 -0500
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Hi -
Related to 20726 in the bugs meeting ( man -k not working properly on
Linux; since fixed in 9.17)
There seems to be a further Linux problem, unless I'm missing
something--
After adding a locker, man -k, whatis, and apropos aren't looking for
a whatis file (if there is one) in the man dir of that locker in the
same way that Suns look for a windex file. They seem innstead to be
looking only at /var/cache/man/whatis.
Example (infoagents/man has a whatis file in it):
On Linux:
add infoagents
whatis Mosaic
apropos browser
man -k browser
..compare to the same on Sun.
Can this be fixed with a change to the Linux whatis and apropos shell
scripts to make sure they look through $MANPATH? Or have the whatis data
for any locker man pages generated and appended to the
/var/cache/man/whatis db automatically when the locker is added?
Or something?
Thanks,
CS
