Rebuilding man page indicies
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Sep 24 08:00:34 PDT 2003
"Mike Loiterman" <mike at ascendency.net> writes:
> One of the programs I'm using isn't picking up the right man
> page...it keeps picking an old version. I've removed all old
> versions, but man $program keeps showing the old version. Unless I
> missed one somewhere, I believe I need to rebuild the man page
> indicies. How do I do this?
You *did* miss one somewhere (maybe a cat version?). The indices
don't contain the full text, so the old version of the man page text
has to still be in a man directory somewhere.
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