For a while I have noticed that on 9.0, even after running makewhatis, the apropos command was still not finding many of the man pages in /usr/share/man. Here is a fix for this.
*** apropos.orig 2002-08-27 06:39:04.000000000 -0700 --- apropos 2002-12-30 17:30:38.000000000 -0800 *************** *** 69,75 **** found=0 while [ $found = 0 -a -n "$1" ] do ! for d in /var/cache/man /usr/lib do if [ -f $d/whatis ] then --- 69,75 ---- found=0 while [ $found = 0 -a -n "$1" ] do ! for d in /var/cache/man/$LANG /var/cache/man /usr/lib do if [ -f $d/whatis ] then *************** *** 103,109 **** done nothing= found=0 ! for d in /var/cache/man $manpath /usr/lib do if [ -f $d/whatis ] then --- 103,109 ---- done nothing= found=0 ! for d in /var/cache/man/$LANG /var/cache/man $manpath /usr/lib do if [ -f $d/whatis ] then
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