Thanks very much to :
Matthew Stier
Dale Hsu
Michael Wang.
Matthew's answer fixed the problem: I added "8" to the man.cf file.
Section 8 is not a standard System V man page section.
Either move the manpage to section 1m, or add section 8 to the man.cf file
in
/usr/share/man.
*************** ORIGINAL QUESTION *******
Marina.Daniels@cs.tas.gov.au wrote:
> I've installed Berkely sendmail 8.9.3 on my solaris 2.6 box, and I am
> having trouble with the man pages. It comes with preformatted man
> pages which, according to the sendmail FAQ, should be copied directly
> into
>
> /usr/share/man/cat8
>
> I have done this, and removed the /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail file
> which is the man page for the sun version of sendmail.
>
> I also did a "catman -w -M /usr/share/man" to rebuild the windex file.
>
> Typing "man -s8 sendmail" means you can see the man page, but if you
> type "man sendmail" it says "No manual entry for sendmail" - how can
I
> make this work?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marina
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