/usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew at charter.net> wrote:
> > Thbbt!  I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV.  Wish I could
> > disable  that "feature".  Oh well.  I'll delete it all and rebuild it
> > again if needed.  Thanks!
> 
> Ah, that's it then :)
> 
> My usual `installworld' steps include this too:
> 
> 	# cd /usr/share/man
> 	# find cat[0-9] \! -type d -exec rm {} +

There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which
rebuilds all the catman pages for you.  However, it makes an immense
mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff formatting
mistakes.  Have a look:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html

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