Re: makewhatis after patch ber

Hi Stephane,

> After launched makewhatis, the result:
> $ makewhatis
> /usr/share/man//mandoc.db: Data changed, but cannot replace database
>
> What to do?

You need to run makewhatis(8) as root because relevant files and
directories typically have these permissions:

$ cd /usr/share/man; ls -ld . mandoc.db
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Oct 22 19:21 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2191096 Oct 22 19:21 mandoc.db

Yours,
Ingo