Trying to Install Man Page

Randall Wood zafiro17 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 07:05:18 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> There is a test man page I am trying to install and the system
> is not finding it. I put it in /usr/local/man/man1 and think
> I should at least get complaints about the page as it is the
> start of a man page, not the whole thing. I named it testpage,
> compressed it with gzip and when I type
> 
> man testpage, it just says that there is no manual entry for
> testpage.
> 
> 	Is there a data base I forgot to remake after adding the
> page? I did make sure the ownership and permissions are the same
> as other pages in the directory. I also did a man on one of the
> other pages in that same directory and it came right up. Thank
> you.
> 
> Martin McCormick

Yes, the program is mandb I think.


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