On 2007-10-29 12:18, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 Very interesting. Maybe we can tweak 330.catman to display the filename of the manpage which causes each error. Then we could use the periodic script as an aid to start actually *fixing* the errors :)Received on Tue Oct 30 2007 - 10:33:41 UTC
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