Bug 878

Summary:	man doesn't create cat pages
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Wissmann, Klaus <kw>
Component:	man	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.1
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Description Wissmann, Klaus 1999-01-19 08:52:17 UTC

man doesn't create cat pages due to a misconfiguration in
/etc/man.config


Patch:
--- man.config.orig     Thu Oct  1 11:22:10 1998
+++ man.config  Thu Oct  1 11:22:15 1998
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 # The keyword FHS will cause this behaviour (and overrides
FSSTND).
 # Explicitly given catdirs override.
 #
-# FSSTND
-FHS
+FSSTND
+# FHS
 #
 # This file is also read by man in order to find how to
call nroff, less, etc.,
 # and to determine the correspondence between extensions
and decompressors.

Comment 1 Wissmann, Klaus 1999-01-19 15:58:59 UTC

A second problem exists. man wants to put cat pages for man pages in
/usr/X11R6/man/ into /var/catman/X11R6 but this directory does not
exist.

Comment 2 David Lawrence 1999-01-19 21:16:59 UTC

I have not been able to observe this behaviour or a test machine in
our lab.