flashman wrote:
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> Hi !
> in former versions of Redhat there was a statement
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> man -k or
> apropos
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> to list statements / find related man-pages
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> I´ve now updated to 6.2 and all i get is "Nothing appropriate"
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> Why that ? Is there any way to fix this or any other statement ?
I belive apropos uses the whatis database that is created/ updated via a
daily cron job. If you don't leave you machine on and running Linux the
cron job is not run. On my system /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron runs
makewhatis -u -w .
I would run the cron script and then try the man -k.
Bret
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