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cartpullerjack
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: 'man -k' broken |
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| This is actually something that has never worked for me in gentoo. No matter what keyword I use, man -k returns "nothing appropriate". How can I fix it? |
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ender wiggin
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:34 am Post subject: |
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man -k, apropos, and whatis all use the whatis database. This can be created by the command:
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There should probably be a cron entry to keep it up to date as man pages are added or changed.
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ender wiggin
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Hate to reply to my own post, but makewhatis is in /etc/cron.daily,
but the command is commented out. Edit the file, and remove the # sign.
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MikePikeFL
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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AWESOME! This is one of those things that has annoyed me for a long time on Gentoo, but just enough so I didn't actually search for it. It took a long time to find it today too, but now that I know, I just emailed my friend the solution, because we've been puzzled by it for almost 2 years. It was a pain to ssh into the slackware box and run apropos!
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