man question
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Mar 19 16:45:49 UTC 2007
On 2007-03-19 11:46, Monah Baki <mbaki at whywire.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a machine running freebsd 6.2 stable
>
> FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #5: Sat Mar 17 15:15:14 EDT 2007
> mbaki at storm.wire.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
>
> If I issue man ifconfig for example, at the end of the man I get the
> following:
> FreeBSD 6.1 February 27, 2006 FreeBSD 6.1
>
> How can I fix it to say 6.2 instead of 6.1
You are probably looking at a 'cached' copy of the preformatted
manpage. The preformatted, cached copies of the manpages live in
the `/usr/share/man/cat?' directories.
You can verify that it is indeed this cached copy that you are
reading with:
$ man -w ifconfig
If you see something like this:
$ man -w ifconfig
/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
$
Then you are not using a cached, preformatted copy.
If, on the other hand, you see something like:
$ man -w ifconfig
/usr/share/man/cat8/ifconfig.8.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz)
$
then it's a preformatted copy that you are going to read.
You can safely remove all the preformatted manpage copies, with:
bash# cd /usr/share/man
bash# find cat? \! -type d | xargs rm
HTH,
Giorgos
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