Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results
> for some queries.  For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me
>
> kevin@treat ~ $ whatis lilo

Ehm... 'whatis' is not 'whereis'.  But leaving that aside, have a 
look at your MANPATH: echo $MANPATH.  If it contains repeated 
entries, you may have to clean up /etc/env.d a bit: cd /etv/env.d/ 
and grep MANPATH *, prune the identical repetitions, then run 
env-update, re-login and run makewhatis.

Also have a look at /etc/man.conf.  The NOAUTOPATH keyword is 
probably needed.  Check with:

# grep -v ^# /etc/man.conf
FHS

MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANPATH /usr/local/share/man


MANPATH_MAP     /bin                    /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /sbin                   /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin                /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/sbin               /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/sbin         /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin/mh             /usr/share/man

NOAUTOPATH


TROFF           /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc
JNROFF          /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
EQN             /usr/bin/geqn -Tps
NEQN            /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1
JNEQN           /usr/bin/geqn -Tnippon
TBL             /usr/bin/gtbl
REFER           /usr/bin/refer
PIC             /usr/bin/pic
VGRIND
GRAP
PAGER           /usr/bin/less -is
BROWSER         /usr/bin/less -is
HTMLPAGER       /bin/cat
CAT             /bin/cat

CMP             /usr/bin/cmp -s

COMPRESS        /bin/cat
COMPRESS_EXT    .F

MANSECT         1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o:1x:2x:3x:4x:5x:6x:7x:8x


.gz             /bin/gunzip -c
.bz2            /bin/bzip2 -c -d
.z
.Z              /bin/zcat
.F
.Y


# whatis man
man                  (1)  - format and display the on-line manual pages
man                  (1p)  - display system documentation
man                  (7)  - macros to format man pages
man.conf [man]       (5)  - configuration data for man

To get rid of the multiple reports by 'whereis', apply the attached 
patch in an overlay to util-linux.  It removes from the whereis 
search path the dirs that on my system are symlinks.

# whereis man
man: /usr/bin/man /etc/man.conf /usr/local/man /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/man.1p.gz

Benno

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