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dwww-build-menu

DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)						      Debian							DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)

NAME

       dwww-build-menu - builds dwww Debian Documentation Menu

SYNOPSIS

       dwww-build-menu

DESCRIPTION

       dwww-build-menu is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW.

       dwww-build-menu	generates  the	Debian	Documentation  Menu  pages  (available on http://localhost/dwww/menu/), from files registered with
       doc-base program, found in the /var/lib/doc-base/documents

       The generated pages are stored in DWWW_DOCROOTDIR/dwww/menu directory. (Default is /var/www/dwww/menu.)

FILES

       /etc/dwww/dwww.conf
	      Configuration file for dwww.

       /var/www/dwww/menu
	      Default directory for generated menu pages.

       /var/lib/dwww
	      Temporary directory used while generating the pages.

SEE ALSO

       dwww(7), dwww-build(8), install-docs(8), Debian doc-base Manual in /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html.

AUTHOR

       Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.  See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.

dwww 1.11.1							February 15th, 2009						DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)