makewhatis fails

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Nov 5 20:36:28 PST 2003


On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:29:03PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> today's -stable cvsup
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Rebuilding man page indices
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> cd /usr/src/share/man; make makedb
> makewhatis /usr/share/man
> Cannot find file: /usr/share/man/man1/lint.0.gz
> *** Error code 1

Looks like that is a dangling symlink.  Try removing it and rebuild.

Kris
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