Starting with OpenBSD 5.0, formatted man pages (/usr/share/man/catX) were no longer installed (as mentioned at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/189931). However, the upgrade instructions never said to remove them, and the default man.conf still searches the cat directories.
My (i386) system started with 4.9 initially, and I have updated through every release up to 5.8. My system still has these out-of-date formatted pages installed, including pages that have long been deleted: $ man -w ccdconfig rtsol /usr/share/man/cat8/ccdconfig.0 /usr/share/man/cat8/rtsol.0 Did I miss a step in the upgrade instructions where these were removed? Is there any reason not to just 'rm -rf /usr/share/man/cat*’? And also ‘rm -rf /usr/share/man/ps*’, those directories are all empty for me. Brendan Shanks