On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:02:13PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Drag?n wrote: > > I don't know if it happens to you. > > > > But in my woody `apropos' and `man -k' don't work. > > > > Does anybody know anything about that? > > It sounds like your pre-formatted man pages have not been generated > via catman. There is a cron job in /etc/cron.daily called man-db which > will generate them, or man catman will give more info.
To clarify, catman generates pre-formatted cat pages which can speed up reading man pages (although pre-formatting *all* of them takes up a lot of disk space for arguably little gain) but these are not necessary to make apropos work. mandb builds a database independent of cat pages which apropos later reads. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
