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

[Thomas Hurst]

* Jeremy Chadwick (koitsu at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> 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

If you want to find what's causing these errors, you could run catman
with -v so it prints the filename of what it's processing.

Less spammy but still noisy in the event of these warnings would be
something like the attached patch, which saves the stderr stream and
prints it and the currently processed filename if it's non-empty.

Maybe friendlier would be the other patch, which silences nroff unless
catman is running verbose.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/
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